WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990
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POLICY UNIT PRODUCED 36 INDEPTH REPORTS
* * *
36
ON
IN
DAVID
FORD,
INDEPTH ANALYSES THE CENTRAL POLICY UNIT HAS PRODUCED ISSUES OF A LONG-TERM AND STRATEGIC NATURE SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT
HON THE SECRETARY, APRIL LAST
THE CHIEF INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
YEAR,
SIR
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON DAVID OF PROJECTS CONCERNED ANALYSES DAVID SAID 13 OF THE NATURE, TWO WERE SOCIAL PROJECTS, 14 CONCERNED POLITICAL SEVEN WERE EXTERNAL ISSUES.
CHEUNG, SIR ECONOMIC
ISSUES AND
AN
REQUESTS,
MATTERS OF MORE IMMEDIATE
"IN ADDITION, IT HAS PRODUCED, IN RESPONSE TO URGENT A TOTAL OF 108 PAPERS ON A WIDE RANGE OF CONCERN, HE SAID.
"THESE
REPORTS
ARE
PROVIDED
ON A PERSONAL AND MYSELF. AS
BASIS
SUCH,
TO THE THEY MUST
GOVERNOR, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL," SIR DAVID ADDED.
י
OF MONTHLY
THE CPU
MEETINGS
WAS
KEPT
THE
OTHER AND
SIR DAVID SAID THE EFFECTIVENESS
UNDER REVIEW
THE CONSTANTLY REGULAR CONTACTS HIMSELF HAD WITH IT.
THAT
THROUGH THE GOVERNOR,
AND FINANCIAL SECRETARY
MEMBERS OF THE A SIGNIFICANT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,
"WE ASSIGN PROJECTS TO THE CPU. AS I INFORMED LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER 1989, THE CPU HAS MADE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR DECISION-MAKING PROCESS THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.
"
ALMOST то
SIR DAVID ALSO NOTED THAT THE OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF
SLIGHT STRENGTHENING ONE YEAR HAD SHOWN THAT THE CPU NEEDED SOME ENABLE IT TO COPE WITH THE GROWING DEMANDS THAT HAD BEEN MADE ON IT.
ESTIMATES FOR AN
"PROVISION HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S ADDITIONAL FOUR POSTS IN THE CPU AND THE UPGRADING OF ONE OTHER.
"
"AUTHORITY FOR THE CREATION OF THESE NEAR FUTURE, SIR DAVID SAID.
WILL BE SOUGHT IN THE
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