Question No. 4
Reply by the Hon. Sir Philip Haddon-Cave, KBE, CMG, JP,
Chief Secretary, to question by
Dr the Hon. Henrietta Ip, in LegCo on 3 April 1985
Question: What are the maximum costs to Government for
providing to a local directorate officer (say a person on D1 of the Directorate pay scale who is married and has 4 children studying in the United Kingdom) the following fringe benefits :
(a) private tenancy allowance;
(b)
overseas education allowance and school passages; and
(c) leave passages?
Sir,
The theoretical costs are as follows :
(a) private tenancy allowance : $97,200 per annum;
(b) overseas education allowance and 2 return school
passages for each child each year : $158,500 per annum;
and
(c)
leave passages every second year for the officer
and dependants excluding those in receipt of school passages: $12,613 per annum.
If Dr Ip wishes to have the actual calculations
on which these figures are based, I shall send them to her.
/However,