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香港政府

GIS 新聞處

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, October 19, 1972

COMPREHENSIVE WHITE PAPER ON SOCIAL WELFARE

The Government will bear the major portion of an estimated $725

million total expenditure on vastly-expanded social welfare during the

remainder of the 1970s if all the proposals in the white paper on social

policy, tabled in the Legislative Council yesterday, are finally implemented.

The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, in a reference to the white

paper in his review of Hong Kong affairs, said it was a draft only because

not all of its proposals had yet been accepted, and he invited public comments

before final decisions were taken.

The comprehensive nature of the proposals put forward make the

white paper -- and a five-year plan of implementation which is still to be

the most important step forward in social welfare in the history

published

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of Hong Kong.

The two documents are the joint work of the Social Welfare Depart-

ment, the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and voluntary agencies, and

represent the conclusions of all concerned --a significant partnership

because only in this way is the real, and continuous, improvement in the quality

of life of the people of Hong Kong possible.

The proposals

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191