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Home Ownership Scheme. The estimated revenue for 1987-88

is $4.7 billion compared with a revised estimate for the

current year of $4.8 billion.

88.

The overall situation of the funds after making

the transfers from General Revenue Account is an estimated

small increase in their balances of $0.6 billion or about

5% of their current levels. This will maintain the real

value of these balances. We need sufficient in the funds

bearing in mind the boost that I am proposing in capital

spending and its longer term impact on cash flow.

89.

Taking the General Revenue Account surplus and

growth in fund balances together gives an estimated

overall surplus for the year of $2.4 billion.

PROGRAMMES AND POLICIES

90.

The

Having outlined the total budgetary position, I

shall now comment on some of the major programmes and

policies on which expenditure estimates are founded.

consolidated account expenditure in 1987-88, which

includes the expenditure of the Housing Authority and

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