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Hong Kong

Volume 198: debated on Tuesday 12 November 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with what countries, other than Vietnam, his Department has discussed the removal of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong.

The steering committee set up under the comprehensive plan of action adopted by the 1989 Geneva international conference on Indochinese refugees last met on 30 April 1991. Since then, the British and Hong Kong Governments have discussed the return of screened-out migrants from Hong Kong bilaterally with a number of Governments, and international organisations apart from Vietnam, notably the ASEAN member countries, Japan, Australia, United States, Canada, UNHCR and IOM.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Hong Kong officials have been dismissed for corruption during each of the last three years.

The statistics are as follows:

YearDismissalCompulsory retirement
1 April 1988 to 31 March 1989111
1 April 1989 to 31 March 199041
1 April 1990 to 31 March 1991100

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if independent observers will be allowed to witness the removal of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement.

Independent observers and the media were invited to witness the repatriation of the so-called double-backers from Hong Kong to Vietnam on 8–9 November.