WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,
MAY 1, 1991
1
CHANGES TO ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE TABLED
* * * * *
THE
APPROVED
A SUMMARY OF ALL CHANGES MADE TO EXPENDITURE FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR TABLED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
OF
ESTIMATES
1990-91 WAS
OF
SPEAKING ON THE REPORT OF CHANGES TO THE APPROVED ESTIMATES
HAMISH MACLEOD, EXPENDITURE, THE ACTING FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SAID THE SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $696.7 MILLION WAS APPROVED.
OTHER ADDITIONAL
"IT WAS FULLY OFFSET EITHER BY SAVINGS UNDER THE SAME OR HEADS OF EXPENDITURE OR BY THE DELETION OF FUNDS UNDER THE COMMITMENTS SUBHEADS," MR MACLEOD SAID.
A
NEW
$327 MILLION HE SAID THIS INCLUDED
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF
ON STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AGENCY MILLION AUGUST 1, 1990 AND $263
FOR PAYMENT OF THE REVISED HOME PURCHASE ALLOWANCE AND THE SPECIAL ALLOWANCE TO OFFICERS ELIGIBLE FOR ASSISTANCE UNDER THE HOME PURCHASE SCHEME AND THE INTRODUCTION NEW HOME FINANCING SCHEME.
OF A
DURING THE
PERIOD,
INCREASED BY $177.9 $26.9 MILLION WERE ALSO APPROVED.
WERE COMMITMENTS APPROVED NON-RECURRENT MILLION AND NEW NON-RECURRENT COMMITMENTS OF
MR MACLEOD ALSO NOTED THAT A NET INCREASE OF APPROVED IN THE SAME PERIOD.
1,131 POSTS
WAS
"ITEMS IN THE SUMMARY HAVE
BEEN
APPROVED EITHER BY FINANCE
COMMITTEE OR UNDER DELEGATED AUTHORITY.
TO "THE LATTER HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(8)(A) OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE ADDED.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN ORDINANCE, HE
71
GOVT COMMITTED TO FIGHT TRIAD
*
GOVERNMENT THE
REMAINS COMMITTED TO COMBATTING THE TRIAD
SECURITY, THE PROBLEM, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR
HON IAN STRACHAN, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON POON
MR. CHI-FAI, AT THE STRACHAN SAID EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION WAS
FOREFRONT OF THESE
EFFORTS.
IT HE SAID WHILST
WOULD NOT BE REALISTIC ΤΟ EXPECT TRIADS COULD BE FULLY ELIMINATED, THE POLICE BELIEVED THEY WERE
REGULAR OPERATIONS CONTAINED AS A RESULT OF ASSOCIATES AND PREMISES.
AGAINST TRIADS,
THAT
BEING
THEIR
/MR STRACHAN