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amount of expenditure should be spent, and I stress

the word reasonable. The Government may be spending

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less to achieve a purpose but it may impair its credibility and have counter-productive results. Take clearance related ex gratia payments for commercial tenants as ar example,

Ja sivil 1983. there has been no increased Tags and 27 January 1988 On 27 January 1988 the Finance. Committee of this Council

of ex gratia payments agreed that the rates for factory owners and commercial tenants should be increased to 13.3 and 33.38 per cent respectively. From 1983 until now whether for removal

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and industrial mercial

resume their bususas elsewhere and to help them

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not been sufficient even for moving of machines; how

per cent can we say that the increase of 13.3 and 33.3is reasonable if they cannot achieve the purpose? I hope

that in handling similar issues in respect of the Tatt's Cairn Tunnel, the Government be to avoid stallt getting into greater in this

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and not for smaller problems

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724 The Financial Secretary pointed out in the early

eighties that public expenditure is concentrating Bew

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welcome. The number of beds, in Government hospitals in 1988 has increased by 16% compared with 1983 and the corresponding figure, for subvented hospitals is 2.4)

staffing As far as

Government Hospitals have seen an increase of 30.6%, subvented hospitals 55.8%. During this same period, the proportion of total expenditure accounted for by medical service expenditure has increased by 1.7%, or a real growth of 134. By 1992, R 35 the number of beds in Government hospitals will be

whereast of 6,130 uF 48.5 per cent 16

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