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We do not have expenditure statistics in respect of civil servants and their dependants alone because pensioners are also covered. The following reply to parts (a) and (b) of the question is thus in respect of civil servants, pensioners, and their eligible dependants. Further, apart from the dental service, it is not possible to give statistics on the actual number of civil servants using medical services, since one individual may seek treatment several times in one year. So the reply to part (c) is necessarily limited.
Expenditure under Head 37 on out-patient medical services for civil servants. pensioners, and their eligible dependants in the past five years is:
91/92 92/93 93/94 94/95
95/96
total expenditure($M)
80.4
87.9
99.8
119.7
136.2
average expenditure($)
79
85
95
112
126
Expenditure under Head 37 on dental services for civil servants, pensioners,
and their eligible dependants in the past five years is:
91/92 92/93
93/94
94/95
95/96
total expenditure($M)
146.1
167.3
192.6
221.7
236.1
average expenditure($)
309
355
408
450
469
The figures in respect of the financial year 95/96 are those approved in the Annual Estimates. Salary revision effective from 1.4.95 has not been taken into account.
The cost of in-patient service and specialist service provided by the Hospital Authority for civil servants, pensioners, and their eligible dependants is the same as that for members of the public. This amounts to an average of $4,808 per private ward bed-day, $2,770 per public ward bed-day, and $372 per attendance at specialist out- patient department in the financial year 94/95. According to figures provided by the Hospital Authority, the overall expenditure on civil servants, pensioners and eligible dependants in 94/95 was some $1 billion. We do not have readily available information on the amount expended in the years preceding 94/95.