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Wednesday, March 1, 1972.
As regards the civil service, the Financial Secretary said
if the Draft Estimates were approved the establishment would be 90,656 permanent posts and 7,809 supernumerary posts. This represented
together an increase of 4.3 per cent over a year ago.
was the fourth lowest since 1960/61.
The increase
As regards recurrent subventions, he said these now accounted for 23 per cent of total recurrent expenditure, the 1972/73 estimate being no less than 3579 million representing an increase of 73 million
on the revised estimate for 1971/72.
for
"being
Mr. Haddon-Crve said some 47 million of the increase was
aided schools, including nearly $700,000 for the Polytechnic the first instalment in an expensive project." If the new salery scales for the teaching service were applied to the aided sector in 1972/73, extra provision required for recurrent subventions would be of the
order of #28 million.
Medical Subventions
Another $10 million of the increase of 47 million was required
for aided medical institutions subvented on a deficiency grant basis and later on, if salery scales were adjusted, a further 38 million
would have to be sought.
Referring to social welfare subventions, the Financial
Secretary said the estimate of almost 20 million represented an increase of over 22 per cent on the revised estimate for 1971/72, or 61 per cent
on actual expenditure in 1970/71.
With several unimportant exceptions, he said, the estimate for next year amounted to acceptance in toto of the recommendations
made by the Social Welfare Advisory Committee.
Air. Haddon-Cave..