Supplementary to Question No. 6 in the
Legislative Council on 15 May 1985
Mrs. Ng asked in Cantonese :
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闍下剛才所提及的賠償金額,請問是何時 訂定的呢?
(The following is the interpretation of what Mrs. Ng asked.)
Sir, when were the rates of compensation just mentioned fixed ?
Secretary for Housing : Sir, the compensation arrangements were last reviewed
in 1981 and although we believe as I've explained that these rates are quite
generous, they are being looked at again now; and the Housing Department will
forward recommendations to the Housing Authority for consideration within the
next few weeks. But I would point out that we are talking in terms of large sums
of money. We still have about 2800 shops still to be moved and compensated and
assuming an average compensation payment of about HK$ 83,000 for each shop the
amount involved is about HK$235 million. The financial implications of any
possible increase therefore in the compensation rates will have to be looked at
very carefully indeed.