TNAG-1642-FCO40-2289-Public-finance-in-Hong-Kong-Supplementary-Appropriation-(198-1987 — Page 282

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Date:

28.11.86.

C of P: Very useful indeed, they have been made great

Time:

Reporter:

8.30

PMO

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use of to recover debts and to keep track of people who owe us

money or be inclined to owe us money and I think as the Deputy

Director, Traffic, has said, it has resulted in a very definite

increase in the collection rate, so it serves a good fiscal purpose.

MR CHEONG: Do the reports come in daily or weekly or

monthly or what?

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DD (T): Well, some reports come in monthly, some reports come in daily, some weekly and so on. Some part of the reports are for management purposes and the Director of Audit correctly criticised us that we gave an estimate of the man-days assigned

to each report and he picked one, where we said 75 man-days per year, and only one has been printed since July, so you can see we were

very wrong on that case. But a certain amount of time it is not that just one man sitting there and looking at one report,

those are reference documents and several people in the Section

have to come backwards and forwards during the day and may spend

three or four minutes checking up their Section before going away

again. But O&M have looked into this now and given their

estimate of the amount of time that is assigned to each report.

CHAIRMAN :

Commissioner, you mentioned you had a review of the staffing of Section D, that review is somewhere around 31.

Is that correct ?

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C of P:

Yes.

CHAIRMAN:

can implement it ?

After you negotiated, when do you reckon you

DD (T): Well, the current strength as of today is 42 staff.

CHAIRMAN:

I see.

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