HC Deb 03 July 1980 vol 987 cc664-70W
Mr. Best

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a list of all local authorities which have accepted Vietnamese refugees for permanent rehousing, stating in each case how many families have been accepted.

Mr. Raison

[pursuant to his reply,13 June 1980, c. 327): The following information, which relates to the position on 31 May, was provided by the Joint Committee for Refugees from Vietnam:

ENGLAND
Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
London
GLC 160 240
Camden 2 10
Merton 6
Bromley 7 5
Redbridge 2
Southwark 5
Tower Hamlets 6
Waltham Forest 2
Hammersmith and Fulham 1
Barnet 8
Bexley 7
Metropolitan counties
GREATER MANCHESTER
Wigan 10
Bury 4
Manchester 11 9
Oldham 3
Trafford 5
Stockport 14 1
MERSEYSIDE
Liverpool 4 16
St. Helens 3 7
Knowsley 10
Wirral 10
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Sheffield 1 6
Rotherham 8
TYNE AND WEAR
Newcastle upon Tyne 3 7
North Tyneside 6
Gateshead 6
South Tyneside 2
WEST MIDLANDS
Walsall 8 2
Dudley 10 2
Sandwell 2
Birmingham 25
Solihull 2
WEST YORKSHIRE
Bradford 5
Calderdale 8
Non-metropolitan counties
AVON
Northavon 2
Bristol 7 3
Kingswood 4
Woodspring 3
Wansdyke 2
Bath 2 1

Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
BEDFORDSHIRE
Mid Bedfordshire 4
South Bedfordshire 2
Luton 4
ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE
Newbury 10
Reading 2 4
Wokingham 2 2
Windsor and Maidenhead 1 5
Bracknell 5
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Aylesbury Vale 2 2
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Peterborough 22
Huntingdon 10 5
East Cambridgeshire 1
South Cambridgeshire 6
Cambridge 4 2
CHESHIRE
Halton 4 2
Ellesmere Port and Neston 5 5
Vale Royal 6
Macclesfield 3
Chester 3 3
Crewe and Nantwich 2
Congleton 2
CLEVELAND
Hartlepool 4
Middlesbrough 6 4
Langbaurgh 4 4
CORNWALL
North Cornwall 2 1
CUMBRIA
Carlisle 6
Allerdale 3
Barrow-in-Furness 3
DERBYSHIRE
High Peak 2
North East Derbyshire 3 3
Bolsover 2
Derby 7
Erewash 3 2
South Derbyshire 2
DEVON
North Devon 2
Mid Devon 2
South Hams 4 1
COUNTY DURHAM
Derwentside 2
Chester-le-Street 2
Durham 12
Easington 3
Sedgefield 4
Darlington 10
EAST SUSSEX
Wealden 2
Lewes 2
Hastings 2

Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
Essex
Uttlesford 2
Braintree 5 2
Colchester 3
Tendring 2
Harlow 4
Chelmsford 3 1
Maldon 1
Basildon 10 3
Thurrock 5
Southend-on-Sea 3 2
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Tewkesbury 2
Gloucester 3
Cheltenham 2 2
Stroud 2
HAMPSHIRE
Basingstoke and Deane 2 2
Rushmoor 3
Test Valley 3
Winchester 4 1
East Hampshire 5
New Forest 3
Southampton 7
Eastleigh 4
Gosport 3 1
Portsmouth 5 3
HEREFORD AND WORCESTER
Wyre Forest 3
Bromsgrove 3
Redditch 1
Malvern Hills 4 6
Worcester 2 4
Wychavon 5
HERTFORDSHIRE
North Hertfordshire 4
Welwyn Hatfield 4
Hertsmere 2
HUMBERSIDE
Boothferry 2
Kingston upon Hull 6
Scunthorpe 4 8
Cleethorpes 3
Great Grimsby 3
ISLE OF WIGHT
South Wight 1
KENT
Dartford 1 1
Gravesham 3
Medway 2
Gillingham 1 1
Swale 2
Thanet 3 1
Maidstone 3
Ashford 5
LANCASHIRE
Lancaster 2 2
Ribble Valley 4
South Ribble 2
West Lancashire 2
Blackburn 3 3
Hyndburn 4
Burnley 5
Pendle 3 1
Rossendale 2 1

Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
LEICESTERSHIRE
North West Leicestershire 3
Charnwood 1
Hinckley and Bosworth 1 2
Leicester 5
Blaby 2
Harborough 2
LINCOLNSHIRE
West Lindsey 2
East Lindsey 2 1
Lincoln 1 3
South Kesteven 3 3
South Holland 2
NORFOLK
West Norfolk 6
Breckland 4
Norwich 1
South Norfolk 2
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Corby 5
Kettering 8 5
Daventry 6
Wellington 5
South Northamptonshire 2 2
NORTHUMBERLAND
Wansbeck 2
Blyth Valley 6
NORTH YORKSHIRE
Richmondshire 2
Scarborough 2
Craven 3
Harrogate 5
York 2
Selby 6
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Bassetlaw 1
Mansfield 2
Newark 4 21
Ashfield 1 1
Broxtowe 1 2
Nottingham 2
Gedling 6
Rushcliffe 1 1
OXFORDSHIRE
Cherwell 2
Vale of White Horse 2
Oxford 4
SALOP
The Wrekin 4 2
Bridgnorth 2
SOMERSET
Sedgemoor 4
Mendip 2 2
Taunton Deane 2
STAFFORDSHIRE
Stoke-on-Trent 2 8
Stafford 2
East Staffordshire 6
South Staffordshire 2
Lichfield 1
Tamworth 2 2

Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
SUFFOLK
Waveney 2
Mid Suffolk 3
Suffolk Coastal 6
SURREY
Runnymede 4
Surrey Heath 3
Woking 5
Elmbridge 4
Epsom and Ewell 2 2
Mole Valley 1 2
Tandridge 3
Waverley 2 1
WARWICKSHIRE
North Warwickshire 2
Nuneaton 1 5
Rugby 5
Warwick 2
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester 2
Mid Sussex 2
Arun 2 2
Worthing 1 1
WILTSHIRE
North Wiltshire 3
Thamesdown 17 3
West Wiltshire 5
Kennet 2
SCOTLAND
CENTRAL
Clackmannan 3 3
Falkirk 3 3
Stirling 2 4
FIFE
Kirkcaldy 4
North-East Fife 2
GRAMPIAN
Aberdeen 5 7
HIGHLAND
Badenoch and Strathspey 3
Inverness 5
Ross and Cromarty 12
Skye and Lochalsh 3
LOTHIAN
East Lothian 4
Edinburgh 6 24
West Lothian 3
STRATHCLYDE
Clydebank 5
Dumbarton 3
Glasgow 6 30
Hamilton 2
Inverclyde 2 2
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 3
Motherwell 4 2
Renfrew 6
Strathkelvin 1
TAYSIDE
Perth and Kinross 5 1

WALES
Units occupied Units offered not yet occupied
CLWYD
Colwyn 1
Delyn 4
Alyn and Deeside 4
Wrexham Maelor 5 3
DYFED
Preseli 2
South Pembrokeshire 2
Carmarthen 2
GWENT
Newport 2 3
Islwyn 2 2
Torfaen 2 2
Monmouth 4
GWYNEDD
Yns mon—Isle of Anglesey 2
Arfon 2
MID GLAMORGAN
Ogwr 2
Merthyr Tydfil 2 6
Rhymney Valley 4
POWYS
Brecknock 2
SOUTH GLAMORGAN
Cardiff 6
Vale of Glamorgan 3
WEST GLAMORGAN
Swansea 4 4
Afan 2

Offers from new town development corporations are not included.

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