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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1989

WAS

INEVITABLE

MR JACOBS SAID IT

THAT CONSIDERABLE YEAR TO YEAR VARIATIONS IN REVENUE, ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE.

WE WOULD EXPERIENCE

IT DEPENDENT AS

WAS

WE SEEK TO

MAINTAIN STABILITY IN

THIS, "NOTWITHSTANDING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE GROWTH. HE SAID.

REFERRING

"

DEVELOPMENT

ARE

TO ORDERLY JACOBS SAID: "IF WE

AND

OF EXPANSION

ΤΟ MANAGE OUR

PUBLIC FINANCES FOUR

SERVICES, MR EFFECTIVELY WE NEED TO PLAN AHEAD AND DETERMINE OVER A PERIOD OF

DRYS

OR FIVE YEARS THE LEVELS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

THE

PUBLIC

WITHOUT TERRITORY'S RESOURCES.

SECTOR

CLAIMING

THAT WE CAN SUSTAIN

SHARE

TOO

GREAT A

OF

THE

TO

BY ESTABLISHING BUDGETARY GUIDELINES, THE GOVERNMENT SOUGHT

BY REFERENCE TO WHAT THE ENSURE THAT SPENDING LEVELS WERE PLANNED ECONOMY COULD SUPPORT AND NOT BY THE REVENUE AVAILABLE.

"AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A

ESSENTIAL NEED FOR AND THIS MAY REQUIRE INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT,

US то ACCEPT TIME TAKE US OUTSIDE OUR LEVELS OF EXPENDITURE WHICH FROM TIME TO GUIDELINES," HE SAID.

THE ECONOMY CAN MEAN

"IT MUST BE REMEMBERED, HOWEVER, THAT CAPACITY

THAT HIGHER SPENDING

TRANSLATES

CONSTRAINTS IN HIGHER INTO

PRICES WITH LITTLE REAL GAIN."

PROVISIONS FOR 3.9 PER CENT CIVIL SERVICE GROWTH

THE FINANCIAL

* * * * *

SECRETARY,

THE

HON PIERS JACOBS.

HAS

MADE

2.5

A 3.9 PER CENT GROWTH IN THE PROVISIONS IN HIS BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR SIZE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE IN 1989-90, COMPARED WITH THE TARGET OF PER CENT GROWTH PER YEAR.

HE

SAID THIE PRESENTING HIS BUDGET TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

IN STAFF REQUIRED FOR GOVERNMENT HAD ALREADY PLANNED FOR INCREASES

BUILD UP OF THE POLICE NEW MEDICAL FACILITIES AND FOR THE

FORCE, HE SAID. PARTLY TO ASSUME THE DUTIES OF THE BRITISH GARRISON,

LEVELS

"IN ADDITION WE NOW HAVE TO PROVIDE FOR HIGHER STAFFING

THE POST OFFICE TO IN, FOR EXAMPLE, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT AND

HE SAID. MEET THE INCREASED DEMAND FOR THEIR SERVICES,

IDENTIFIED

MR JACOBS SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD COMMITMENTS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR INCREASED EXPENDITURE over DECADE.

PROBABLE THE NEXT

/"WHEN CONSIDERATION