§ Mr. Parryasked the Lord Privy Seal if he will publish in the Official Report from international sources available to him a list of the countries which have accepted Vietnamese refugees, and the numbers accepted to the latest available date.
§ Mr. BlakerAccording to the most recent figures available from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees the number of Indo-China refugees accepted for resettlement by foreign and Commonwealth countries shown as at 1 May 1979 is as follows—separate figures for Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians are not available:
Country Number accepted (rounded) China 230,000 Taiwan 1,000* USA 217,000 France 48,800 Australia 19,500 Canada 14,400 Germany 3,500 Malaysia 1,600 Switzerland 1,500 Belgium 1,300 Norway 900 New Zealand 800 Denmark 600 Netherlands 380 Austria 340 Italy 250 Israel 170 Japan 50 Luxembourg 30 Others 700 Total 540,620 * Estimate. The United Kingdom has accepted for settlement 1,537 Vietnamese.
The UNHCR gives the number of Vietnamese refugees in temporary asylum in the countries shown as at 1 May as follows:
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Country Number accepted (rounded) Thailand 3,100 Malaysia 54,100 Indonesia 11,700 Macau 1,800 Philippines 1,600 Japan 400 Singapore 300 Other countries 100 Total 73,100 The total number of refugees in Thailand on 1 May, according to the same source, was 149,126. This includes 146,000 refugees from Cambodia and Laos.
Hong Kong has admitted 9,200 former residents of Vietnam for permanent resettlement since 1975, and on 5 June there were a further 44,690 Vietnamese refugees in the territory pending resettlement elsewhere.