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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990

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POLICY UNIT PRODUCED 36 INDEPTH REPORTS

* * *

36

ON

IN

DAVID

FORD,

INDEPTH ANALYSES THE CENTRAL POLICY UNIT HAS PRODUCED ISSUES OF A LONG-TERM AND STRATEGIC NATURE SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT

HON THE SECRETARY, APRIL LAST

THE CHIEF INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

YEAR,

SIR

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON DAVID OF PROJECTS CONCERNED ANALYSES DAVID SAID 13 OF THE NATURE, TWO WERE SOCIAL PROJECTS, 14 CONCERNED POLITICAL SEVEN WERE EXTERNAL ISSUES.

CHEUNG, SIR ECONOMIC

ISSUES AND

AN

REQUESTS,

MATTERS OF MORE IMMEDIATE

"IN ADDITION, IT HAS PRODUCED, IN RESPONSE TO URGENT A TOTAL OF 108 PAPERS ON A WIDE RANGE OF CONCERN, HE SAID.

"THESE

REPORTS

ARE

PROVIDED

ON A PERSONAL AND MYSELF. AS

BASIS

SUCH,

TO THE THEY MUST

GOVERNOR, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL," SIR DAVID ADDED.

י

OF MONTHLY

THE CPU

MEETINGS

WAS

KEPT

THE

OTHER AND

SIR DAVID SAID THE EFFECTIVENESS

UNDER REVIEW

THE CONSTANTLY REGULAR CONTACTS HIMSELF HAD WITH IT.

THAT

THROUGH THE GOVERNOR,

AND FINANCIAL SECRETARY

MEMBERS OF THE A SIGNIFICANT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,

"WE ASSIGN PROJECTS TO THE CPU. AS I INFORMED LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER 1989, THE CPU HAS MADE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR DECISION-MAKING PROCESS THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.

"

ALMOST то

SIR DAVID ALSO NOTED THAT THE OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF

SLIGHT STRENGTHENING ONE YEAR HAD SHOWN THAT THE CPU NEEDED SOME ENABLE IT TO COPE WITH THE GROWING DEMANDS THAT HAD BEEN MADE ON IT.

ESTIMATES FOR AN

"PROVISION HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S ADDITIONAL FOUR POSTS IN THE CPU AND THE UPGRADING OF ONE OTHER.

"

"AUTHORITY FOR THE CREATION OF THESE NEAR FUTURE, SIR DAVID SAID.

WILL BE SOUGHT IN THE

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