Audit Report Paragraphs
8-11
13-16
17-28
35-41
PARAGRAPHS IN THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT'S REPORT DEALT WITH IN THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT
Subject
Whether the Inland Revenue Department needs to do more to combat tax evasion under the Inland Revenue Ordinance.
The failure of the Government to clearly define its policy for determining the level of school fees and subsidy for senior secondary education.
Universities and Polytechnics. The oversight of a target laid down in 1973 that tuition fees should equal at least 12% of recurrent expenditure.
Non-assessment to rates of market stalls in the public markets of the Urban and Regional Councils and in the temporary wholesale markets of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department.
P.A.C. Report Paragraphs
7.71-7.77
6.31-6.38
6.39-6.49
6.50-6.61
48-52
Inadequacy of disaster recovery planning for Government computer installations.
6.1-6.3
53-55
Review of departmental procedures for the calculation and recording of leave eligibility.
6.12-6.21
56-60
Government policy not followed in the provision of Govern- ment, Institution and Community (GIC) facilities in the dockyard re-deployment project in Hung Hom.
6.81-6.92
61-66
67-71
Delays in occupying premises for Government, Institution and Community purposes in a private development project. Value for money studies conducted by the Finance Branch of the Government Secretariat.
6.4-6.11
6.62-6.66
75-77
The Government could save $1 million a year if immigration control officers checked the air passenger departure tax tickets of departing passengers instead of employing staff through a security company specially for checking the tickets.
7.64-7.70
78-86
Low efficiency in the Correctional Services Industries (CSI) of the Correctional Services Department.
7.45-7.56
87-89
The failure of the disciplined services to make full use of the Correctional Services Industries (CSI) in the manufacture of uniforms for their staff.
7.57-7.63
90-93
Slow progress and delays in taking action on formulating a detailed policy on the subventing of insurance premiums and in devising a system by which the various risks can be covered at minimum cost.
6.67-6.73
101-106 (and 5 and 7)
Over-staffing in the Central Traffic Prosecutions Unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force at an extra cost of $2.5 million in 1985.
7.78-7.90
107-112
The failure to apply Government procedures flexibly, resulting in additonal expenditure of $4.75 million.
6.74-6.80
113-124
The necessity to exercise budgetary control over the expendi- ture of the Hong Kong Tourist Association.
6.22-6.30
125-132
7.91-7.104
136–145
146-151
30
The payment of $8.6 million mainly in architectural fees for abortive design work following a Government requirement that two technical institutes should be redesigned to more modest proportions.
Water leakage in the basement of the Queen Elizabeth Stadium soon after completion resulting in estimated addi- tional costs of $1.9 million.
Hong Kong Coliseum project. Contractual claims of $18 million and delay in completion of 41 months because of underestimation of the complexity of construction and late changes in the scope of the project.
7.1-7.24
7.25-7.44
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