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Question No. 4

Reply by the Hon. Sir Philip Haddon-Cave, KBE, CMG, JP,

Chief Secretary, to question by

Dr the Hon. Henrietta Ip, in LegCo on 3 April 1985

Question: What are the maximum costs to Government for

providing to a local directorate officer (say a person on D1 of the Directorate pay scale who is married and has 4 children studying in the United Kingdom) the following fringe benefits :

(a) private tenancy allowance;

(b)

overseas education allowance and school passages; and

(c) leave passages?

Sir,

The theoretical costs are as follows :

(a) private tenancy allowance : $97,200 per annum;

(b) overseas education allowance and 2 return school

passages for each child each year : $158,500 per annum;

and

(c)

leave passages every second year for the officer

and dependants excluding those in receipt of school passages: $12,613 per annum.

If Dr Ip wishes to have the actual calculations

on which these figures are based, I shall send them to her.

/However,