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Now this civil servant
per thousand population figure has been
Las creeping, no, its been climbing from 25 in -
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1977 to 26 in 1978, through 1980, to 31
in 1982, to 32 in 1983 through 1986, and to 33 in 1987. These figures are worked out from the population and civil service figures contained in the various editions of a little pamphlet entitled 'Hong Kong in Figures', and are detailed in the table appended to my speech. I have also worked out the civil
1000 servants per thousand population figures at five-year intervals between 1962 and 1987, and these figures are even more telling, The leviathan, perhaps benign, perhaps monstrous, has grown from 17 per thousand in 1962 to 20 in 1967, 24 in 1972, 25 in 1977, 31 in 1982, and 33 in 1987. I am awaiting the release of the 1989 edition of the pamphlet to bring
The this table to 1988 and up-to-date.
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figures given on page 245 of the draft estimates supporting details section one show a low
figure of around 19313,00 Led, and a high fig-
ure of 201,000 for 1988. Although they do not strictly suit the purposes of updating the table, they do point out the fact that the establishment is set to increase from 183,000 in 1987 to 193,000 or 201,000 in 1988, or
ber cent
per cent
5.4% to 10%, or in other words to expand by some 10,000 to 18,000 civil servants, all
within a year.
I wonder if all these increases are necessary? As a member of the Establishment
Sub-Committee of this Council's Finance
Committee, obviously I am to blame.
the Government share my blame too?
Now will
Please
donot tell me that every single post, every