HC Deb 28 May 1982 vol 24 c432W
Mr. Cartwright

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of Vietnamese refugees resettled in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) Greater London and (c) south-east London.

Mr. Raison

Between April 1975 and April 1982, 16,265 Vietnamese refugees had been admitted to the United Kingdom of whom about 800 were still in reception centres awaiting resettlement. The British Refugee Council tell us that of about 15,450 refugees resettled in the United Kingdom about 2,950 have been resettled in the Greater London area. Of these, about 1,250 have gone to south-east London—defined for this purpose as the London boroughs of Southwark, Greenwich, Bexley, Bromley and Lewisham.