Audit Report Paragraphs
7-11
25-35 (36-38)
39-42
46-54
58-62
PARAGRAPHS IN THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT'S REPORT
DEALT WITH IN THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT
Subject
The current arrangements for funding the Police Welfare Fund and the Fire Services Department Welfare Fund and the improper crediting of $7.2 million to the Police Welfare Fund.
Full-scale review of the procedures relating to the assessment and collection of revenue from properties and investments, land transactions and connected fees and charges, for which the Director of Lands is responsible (and including the Mass Transit Office of the Engineering Development Department), with a view to establishing a sound system of internal control and to issuing a manual of guidance for officers concerned with each step of the procedures; and four new cases of under-collection totalling $2 million because of mistakes.
The need to charge the Urban Council for abortive work on abandoned Urban Council projects handled in-house by the Architectural Office of the Building Development Department.
Disaster recovery planning for Government computer installations.
Review of departmental procedures for the calculation and recording of leave eligibility. Over-statement of leave earnings in certain departments.
P.A.C. Report Paragraphs
7.68-7.73
7.45-7.57
6.35-6.44
6.1-6.5
6.6-6.15
63-68
69-71
72-74
Personal Emoluments. Service-wide review of the administration of job-related allowances.
6,16-6.27
7.36-7.44
Lack of comprehensive guidelines on the planning and conducting of negotiations with the tenderers for the procurement of stores and services under single tender arrangements.
The wisdom of keeping a large number of the City and New Territories Administration quarters vacant during the unnecessarily lengthy negotiations with the Lands Department on how the quarters should be divided between the two authorities causing nugatory expenditure with the possible reduced operational effectiveness of the district administration.
7.1-7.6
76-83
84-87
The accumulation of unexpended subventions in the hands of voluntary organizations under the standard cost subvention system.
Overpayment of subventions to non-profit-making day nurseries arising from the granting of an automatic 5% subvention.
7.74-7.83
7.84-7.86
88-96
Delays in the fitting out of welfare premises in public housing
7.87-7.93
estates.
97-106
Implementation of the Government's policy for reducing traffic congestion.
6.80-6.88
107-123
The need to carry out periodic reviews to see if the universities and polytechnics students finance scheme is being administered as economically as possible whilst meeting the policy objective.
7.94-7.102
125-129
The cost-effectiveness of the Air Passenger Departure Tax collection system.
7.7-7.15
134-137
Deferment of action in setting out the Government's policies and procedures for the control of subventions.
6.45-6.54
138-140
6.55-6.62
149
Slow progress and delays in taking action on formulating a detailed policy on the subventing of insurance premiums and in devising a system by which the various risks can be covered at minimum cost.
Raising productivity and restraining growth in departmental establishments.
6.63-6.67
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