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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -18 January 1989

香港立法局 —————— 一九八九年一月十八日

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Thirdly, the director is considering what grants under the Codes of Aid could be amalgamated to give aided schools more flexibility in the use of their subsidy.

MR. DAVID CHEUNG: Sir, based on the Secretary's answer I have three supplementary questions, if you will allow.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT: Not all at the same time please, one by one, and not in sequence because I must give other Members the chance to ask their supplementaries.

MR. DAVID CHEUNG: Sir, in view of the fact that there are primary schools now in which the number of classes involved, the am and pm sessions, do not exceed 24, will the Secretary inform this Council whether Government will consider declaring full-day primary school when and where possible so that such schools will have no excuse to remain half day?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, I do not want to anticipate what our proposals will be. I would certainly hope that where there is no accommodation problem, we would be able to move quickly. But at this stage I would not wish to commit myself.

司徒華議員問:主席先生,根據教育統籌司答覆的第一段,教育署署長進行了詳細研究後,發覺 實行小學全日制所需新校的數目並不如當初想像這樣多。教育統籌司可否告知本局:一、當初需 要多少新校?後來發覺實際需要的又是多少?二、這項發覺是否會使小學全日制能夠更易、更快 實施?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, we have not yet got a final figure. We have been trying to make our figure more accurate and reliable. The figure we now have and I must stress that this is still very tentative, though I hope that we can finalize our proposals and our information within the next few months, is about 100 schools at a cost of about $1.5 billion. Originally we feared the sum would be more than that. I do not think we had any specific sum in mind, but we thought it would be more than the 100 schools and $1.5 billion which now looks like being necessary. As I say, this is still not a final figure. The fact that the figures are not as big as the department originally feared will certainly, I hope, make the problem less difficult than it might have been.