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Question No. 3

REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE

TO A QUESTION BY HON. HUI YIN-EAT

IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 1985

Question:

Will Government inform this Council whether it has sufficient revenue in this financial year to maintain existing social welfare programmes including the provision of salary adjustments for subvented voluntary welfare agencies staff, as well as to implement all the approved expan- sion and improvement projects in the Five Year Plan for Social Welfare Development.

Sir,

"

The provision of $420 million in the Social

Welfare Subventions head for the present financial year

is sufficient to maintain the existing services operated

by the subvented welfare agencies. Sufficient funds are

also available to meet the salary adjustment, although it

may be necessary to seek supplementary provision to cover

this requirement at a later stage in the financial year.

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2.

The Five Year Plan for Social Welfare Development

identified 64 new projects for implementation this year;

funds are available for allocation to 51 of these projects,

and this represents all the projects which are likely to be

ready to come into operation before the end of the financial

year.

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