LegCo Public Accounts Committee to hold public hearing on November 25
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The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:

     The Legislative Council (LegCo) Public Accounts Committee will hold the first public hearing on "Allocation and utilisation of public rental housing flats" (Chapter No.3) of the Director of Audit's Report No.61 on next Monday (November 25) at 9am in Conference Room 2 of the LegCo Complex.

     Nine witnesses have been invited to appear before the Committee to respond to points raised in the Report and answer questions asked by members of the Committee.

     The programme for the public hearing is as follow:

Date: November 25 (Monday)
Venue: Conference Room 2
Time: 9am to 1pm           

Subject:                              
Allocation and utilisation of public rental housing flats                              
(Chapter No.3 of the Director of Audit's Report No.61)

Witnesses:
Secretary for Transport and Housing
Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung
                         
Director of Housing
Mr D W Pescod
                               
Deputy Director (Strategy)
Housing Department
Miss Agnes Wong

Deputy Director (Estate Management)
Housing Department
Mr Albert Lee
                                                
Assistant Director (Strategic Planning)
Housing Department
Mr Anson Lai
                                                
Assistant Director (Housing Subsidies)
Housing Department
Mrs Rosa Ho
                                                
Assistant Director (Legal Service)
Housing Department
Mrs Kitty Yan
                                                
Assistant Director (Estate Management) 3
Housing Department
Mr Tony Liu
                                                
Chief Housing Manager (Applications)
Housing Department
Mr Michael Lee

     The Public Accounts Committee is chaired by Mr Abraham Shek, and its Deputy Chairman is Mr Paul Tse. Other members include Mr Chan Hak-kan, Mr Alan Leong, Mr Wong Yuk-man, Mr Ng Leung-sing and Mr Kenneth Leung.

Ends/Saturday, November 23, 2013
Issued at HKT 13:03

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