HC Deb 22 June 1988 vol 135 c585W
Dr. Marek

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy not to keep any person for more than five years in a closed camp in Hong Kong.

Mr. Eggar

As part of their new policy towards Vietnamese boat people arriving in the territory, the Hong Kong Government intend over the next six to 12 months to liberalise the regime in the centres which will house all those accorded refugee status. Those arriving after 16 June who are not accorded refugee status will be detailed in closed centres without access to resettlement, pending their return to Vietnam as soon as internationally acceptable conditions for this are established.