Original
Head of Expenditure
59 Public Debt
Estimate
$
42,674,000
60 Public Services Commission
489,000
61 Public Works Department: Headquarters
9,671,000
Revised Estimate $ 41,120,000 483,000 9,828,000
Actual Gross Expenditure
Excess or Saving on
STATE
Original Estimate
$
$ %
Head of E
41,000,510
1,673,490 3.9
481,991 9,680,127 +
7,009
1.4
21 His Exc
9,127
0.1
22 Agricul
62 Public Works Department: Building
23 Audit I
Development
113,036,000
122,634,000
113,458,357
+
422,357
0.4
24 Census
63 Public Works Department: Engineering
25 Civil A
Development
268,896,000
282,955,000
275,048,106 + 6,152,106
2.3
26 Colonia
64 Public Works Department: Lands and
27 Colonia
Survey
36,711,000
38,891,000
35,181,008
1,529,992
4.2
28 Comme
65 Public Works Department:
29 Defence
New Territories Development
3,907,000
4,816,000
4,675,759
+
768,759
19.7
30 Defence
66 Public Works Department: Water
Supplies
32 Defence
211,801,000
195,591,000
176,367,344
—
35,433,656 16.7
33 Defence
67 Public Works Non-Recurrent:
Headquarters
34 Educati
93,364,000
70,450,000
68 Public Works Non-Recurrent: Buildings
226,728,000
150,875,000
69 Public Works Non-Recurrent: Engineering 70 Public Works Non-Recurrent:
457,612,000
60,124,868 143,697,183 257,795,000 254,922,192
33,239,132 35.6
35 Fire Se:
―
83,030,817 --202,689,808
36.6
36 Govern
44.3
37 Home,
38 Housin
New Towns and Public Housing (other than Housing Authority)
39 Immigr
593,743,000
408,672,000 400,870,616
--192,872,384
32.5
40 Indeper
71 Public Works Non-Recurrent:
Waterworks
72 Radio Hong Kong
41 Inform:
230,114,000 285,766,000
13,100,000
24,232,000
268,428,125 + 38,314,125 24,293,006 +11,193,006
16.7
42 Inland
85.4
43 Judicia
73 Rating and Valuation Department
13,647,000
15,041,000
14,400,299
753,299
5.5
44 Kowlo
74 Registrar General's Department
12,693,000
14,473,000
14,418,821 + 1,725,821
13.6
45 Labour
75 Registration of Persons Department
5,192,000
5,761,000
5,539,488 +
347,488
6.7
46 Legal I
76 Registry of Trade Unions
656,000
738,000
737,643 + 81,643
12.4
47 Legal A
77 Royal Observatory
78 Social Welfare Department
79 Subventions: Education
80 Subventions: Medical
81 Subventions: Miscellaneous
82 Subventions: Social Welfare
83 Transport Department 84 Treasury
85 Universities and Polytechnic
86 Urban Services Department
180,708,000
66,871,000
197,429,000
8,285,000
8,988,000
8,816,461
+
531,461
6.4
48 Marine
354,812,000
299,268,000
294,334,466
· 60,477,534
17.0
49 Medica
821,165,000 874,814,000
843,199,002 + 22,034,002 187,193,401 + 6,485,401
2.7
51 New T
3.6
52 Office (
69,857,000
52,000,000 55,820,000 15,625,000 16,325,000 12,426,000 292,333,000 51,400,000
13,737,000
301,712,000 54,985,000
Total Expenditure
69,842,053 + 2,971,053 53,619,381 + 1,619,381 15,999,205 + 374,205 13,682,404 + 1,256,404 296,413,446 + 4,080,446 70,396,484 + 18,996,484
7,211,910,000 6,843,082,000 6,590,911,658 -620,998,342
4.4
Legisla
3.1
54 Police:
2.4
56 Post Of
10.1
57 Printin
1.4
58 Prisons
37.0
60 Public
61 Public
62 Public
63 Public
64 Public
65 Public
Supplementary provisions totalled $594,307,638 but only $492,077,409 was spent against these provisions.
8. Excesses and shortfalls on subheads are shown in detail in Statement 4. The major variations from the estimates
were: 'Personal Emoluments'
Expenditure on Personal Emoluments totalled $2,135,012,357 compared with the total provision in the estimates of $1,969,555,000; an excess of $165,457,357 (8.4%); which resulted in nearly 90% of departments' Personal Emolu- ments subheads being exceeded. The excess would have been significantly larger had the actual strength of public service not been substantially below the approved establishment throughout the year. The average monthly strength of the public service was in fact 5,975 below the approved establishment for 1 April 1976 of 114,692. At the end of March 1977 the actual strength of the public service was 108,717 compared with 105,274 at the end of March 1976. The increase in expenditure was the result of a number of pay changes during the financial year 1976/77. In chronological order the major items were: (1) restructuring of the Clerical Class in April 1976; (2) general pay increase for the civil service in June 1976 with retrospective effect to April 1976; (3) review of the Demarcator grade of the New Territories Administration in September 1976; (4) restructuring of the Foreman grade in February 1977; (5) review of the Tele- phone Operator grade in February 1977; (6) regrading of Office Attendants and Messengers in February 1977; (7) revision of pay scales with retrospective effect to April 1976 for Supplies Supervisors and Supplies Assistants in March 1977 and (8) restructuring with retrospective effect to April 1976 of the Secretarial Class in March 1977.
In the following table the original personal emoluments estimates are compared with actual expenditure:
66 Public 72 Radio 73 Rating 74 Registr 75 Registr 76 Registr 77 Royal
78 Social
83 Transp 84 Treasu
85 Univer 86 Urban
Total
In the f total gross
Expenditu Expenditu
10