REVISED AGENDA FOR FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2011, AT 3:00 P.M.

Declaration of interest :Please refer to Rules 83A and 84 of the Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council for rules regarding pecuniary interest to be disclosed.

Item No.Subject
1.FCR(2011-12)55*HEAD 190 - UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE
Subhead 000 Operational expenses

HEAD 156 - GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT: EDUCATION BUREAU
Subhead 700 General non-recurrent
New Item "Injection into the Research Endowment Fund"

(This item invites Members to -

(a)accept the total recurrent grant for the University Grants Committee-funded institutions for the 2012/13 to 2014/15 triennium, estimated at $42,208.9 million; and

(b)approve a new commitment of $5 billion for injection into the Research Endowment Fund for providing research funding to the higher education sector.)

(In attendance : Under Secretary for Education/Deputy Secretary for Education/Secretary-General, University Grants Committee)

(Discussed by Education Panel on 14 November 2011)

2.FCR(2011-12)56CAPITAL WORKS RESERVE FUND
HEAD 710 - COMPUTERISATION
Immigration Department
New Subhead "New Information Technology Infrastructure of the Immigration Department"

(This item invites Members to approve a new commitment of $862,202,000 for the implementation of a new information technology infrastructure and acquisition of data centre services for the Immigration Department.)

(In attendance : Principal Assistant Secretary for Security (D)/ Assistant Director of Immigration (Information Systems)/Chief Systems Manager (Technology Services), Immigration Department)

(Discussed by Security Panel on 7 November 2011)

3.FCR(2011-12)57HEAD 140 - GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT : FOOD AND HEALTH BUREAU (HEALTH BRANCH)
Subhead 700 - General non-recurrent
New Item "Health and Medical Research Fund"

(This item invites Members to approve the creation of a new commitment of $1,415 million for the setting up of a Health and Medical Research Fund by consolidating the existing commitment items "Health and Health Services Research Fund" and "Funding Research on Control of Infectious Diseases", with a broadened scope for funding health and medical research in Hong Kong.)

(In attendance : Secretary for Food and Health/Deputy Secretary for Food and Health (Health)/Associate Consultant (Research Office), Food and Health Bureau/Scientific Review Director (Research Office), Food and Health Bureau)

(Discussed by Health Services Panel on 14 November 2011)

* Agenda item carried over from the meeting held on 2 December 2011.

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