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LCQ10: Self-employed persons
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     Following is a question by the Hon Ip Wai-ming and a written reply by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, in the Legislative Council today (February 3):

Question:

     Will the Government inform this Council whether it knows the respective numbers of self-employed persons engaged in the construction, catering and manufacturing industries who had taken out employees' compensation insurance and had joined mandatory provident fund schemes in each of the past 10 years; if it does not know, whether the authorities will collect the relevant data expeditiously?

Reply:

President,

     The Government does not have the number of self-employed persons who have taken out employees' compensation insurance.  As it is a personal decision of the general public to take out insurance and given that circumstances would always change and that they are not required to report to the Government, it is not feasible to collect the relevant data.

     In respect of Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes, according to the information provided by the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA), as at end-2009, there were 347 000 self-employed persons participating in Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes.  The MPFA does not have a breakdown of the number of self-employed persons in different industries.

Ends/Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Issued at HKT 11:43

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