§ Mr. CranTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the latest situation relating to Vietnamese migrants in Hong Kong.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe current position remains as set out in my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for212W Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs' reply of 18 February to the hon. Member for Streatham (Sir W. Shelton). Since the orderly repatriation programme was agreed last October, the camp population in Hong Kong has fallen from 64,314 on 5 October 1991 to 58,762 now. Only four Vietnamese migrants have arrived in Hong Kong so far this year. In total, more than 20,000 migrants have now returned to Vietnam from first asylum countries in the region; there has not been one substantiated case of persecution.