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The Housing Department does not keep copies of business licences or related documents issued by other Departments.

The Rating and Valuation Department charges rates for the use of the frontal section of a shop as rates are normally based on the actual area of occupation.

Since the Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme began in 1988, no shop tenant has appealed against the Housing Department's method of calculating ex-gratia allowances, particularly as the allowance is not a statutory form of compensation.

Workload statistics of community psychiatric nurses

Following is a question by Dr the Hon Huang Chen-ya and a written reply by the Secretary for Health and Welfare. Mrs Katherine Fok, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Is the Government aware:

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the current numbers of psychiatric outpatients and community psychiatric nurses respectively in each of the hospital clusters of the Hospital Authority (HA);

the average daily number of cases handled by each community psychiatric nurse in public hospitals, together with a breakdown of the categories of such cases; and

whether the HA will provide more resources so as to improve the psychiatric service in public hospitals; if so, what the details are?

Reply:

Since workload statistics are kept by the Hospital Authority on the basis of attendance rate rather than number of patients, a breakdown showing the total number of psychiatric out-patient attendance and community psychiatric nurses in each of the hospital clusters is provided below -