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Wednesday, February 28, 1973
SOCIAL WELFARE SUBVENTIONS
Methods Of Administration Under Review
The growing importance
subventions, coupled with comments of
the Director of Audit, has caused the Government to review the methode of
administering them.
The Financial Secretary, the Hon. C.P. Haddon-Cave said this in his
Budget speech at the Legislative Council this afternoon.
An inter-departmental working party, he said, has examined medical
subventions and the Director of Medical and Health has introduced administrative
improvements in consequence.
"So as to improve the level of assistance, we have also changed the
way in which hospitals subvented on a cost-per-bed basis are assisted as
explained in the Memorandum Note on Head 76 Subventions:
Medical."
In the coming year, he said the working party will be looking at
social welfare subventions and, if time permits, education subventions in the
context of the unified code of aid as introduced for the coming academic year.
Mr. Haddon-Cave said he had also been concerned at the amount of work
involved in processing social welfare subventions by the Social Welfare Department,
by the Social Welfare Advisory Committee and by the Finance Branch of the
Secretariat.
"I have put forward proposals for changing present procedures to my
Honourable friend, the Director of Social Welfare.
"These
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