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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

17 March 1976

for WRITTEN answer on:

HKIOD

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

4.

Noon, Thursday

18 March 1976

Mr Kenneth Baker (City of Westminster, St. Marylebone): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the projected increase in expenditure on health services in Hong Kong for the financial year 1976-77; and how many more hospital beds are to be provided.

Mr David Ennals

HK$631 million as compared with HK$590 million

(revised estimate) in 1975/76, a projected increase of

HK$41 million. An additional 694 hospital beds are to be provided increasing the ratio of beds per head of the population to 4.18 per 1000.

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