(b)
(c)
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The Immigration Department will provide seven additional staff in 1995-96 to help speed up the processing of passengers at the ferry terminal. The Customs and Excise Department has adequate staff for the time being.
The existing China Ferry Terminal is expected to reach capacity by 2001. An inter-departmental working group under the Planning Department is now identifying a suitable site for a new terminal, for completion before that date.
End/Wednesday, March 8, 1995
Finances of Institute of Education and Academy for Performing Arts
Following is a question by the i lon Timothy Ha Wing-ho and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Michael Leung, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
As the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Institute of Education now offer degree-level courses to local students, will the Government inform this Council whether:
(a)
(b)
(c)
it is aware of the present source of finances, arrangements for allocation of funds and monitoring mechanism in the two institutions: how do the relevant authorities monitor their operations:
there are any plans to put the two institutions under the aegis of the University Grants Committee; if so, what the details are and what the progress has been made so far; if not, why not; and
it is aware of the respective estimated and actual expenditures of the two institutions in each of the past three years, as well as their budgets for the next financial year?