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(a) Recent
Branch
newspaper articles claimed that Finance
was asking Departments to speed up
their capital spending during the current
financial year.
(b) The CPG would
increases
of
be alarmed by any unnecessary
this sort in government
expenditure.
Controlling Social Spending
4.
on the
The NCNA officials accepted that increased spending
social services would benefit the community.
they insisted that any additional expenditure in
this area should comply with four conditions:
However,
(a) The extra spending
should not lead to budget
deficits.
(b) Increased
spending
should be devoted to
programmes based on past policy reviews and
which
represented
widely-accepted
recommendations (e.g.,
those contained in the
Education
Commission's
fourth and fifth
reports).
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