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The information is set out below:

1993/94

1994/95

1995/96

(up to end Jan 96)

Fully-sponsored

Visits by UK MPs

16

15

15

Partially-sponsored

Visits by UK MPs

6

11

8

Programme-only

Visits arranged

for UK MPs

5*

7(11)*

3(4)*

Total Expenditure

(in HK$)

0.79m

0.78m

0.88m

Figures outside the brackets denote the number of delegations; figures inside indicate the number of individual visitors.

Staffing in family service centres

Following is a question by the Hon Zachary Wong Wai-yin and a written reply by the Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Katherine Fok, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question

Regarding the staffing situation in the Social Welfare Department's family service centres, will the Government inform this Council:

(a)

of the population and its annual growth rate in each of the districts covered by the respective District Social Welfare Office in each of the past three years, as well as the staffing situation and the number of cases handled in the family service centres in each District Social Welfare Office in the corresponding period: