LegCo Public Accounts Committee will hold public hearing tomorrow
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The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:

     The Legislative Council (LegCo) Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold a public hearing on "Monitoring of charitable fund-raising activities" (Chapter 2) of the Director of Audit's Report No.68 at 9am tomorrow (May 16) in Conference Room 1 of the LegCo Complex.

     Ten witnesses have been invited to appear before the above hearing to respond to points raised in the Report and answer questions asked by PAC members.

     The programme for the public hearing is as follows:
 
Date: May 16 (Tuesday)
Venue: Conference Room 1
9 am
Subject:
Monitoring of charitable fund-raising activities
(Chapter 2 of the Director of Audit's Report No.68)
 
  Witnesses:
  Mr Lau Kong-wah
Secretary for Home Affairs
   
  Mr Laurie Lo
Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs (1)
   
  Ms Carol Yip
Director of Social Welfare
   
  Mr Kok Che-leung
Assistant Director (Subventions)
Social Welfare Department
   
  Miss Janice Tse
Director of Home Affairs
   
  Ms Josephine Cheung
Assistant Director of Home Affairs (Support)
   
  Miss Vivian Lau Lee-kwan
Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
   
  Ms Maisie Chan Kit-ling
Deputy Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (Environmental Hygiene)
   
  Ms Bernadette Linn
Director of Lands
   
  Mr Patrick Leung
Principal Land Executive/Land Control and Lease Enforcement
Lands Department
   
     PAC is chaired by Mr Abraham Shek, and its Deputy Chairman is Mr Kenneth Leung. Other members include Mr Paul Tse, Mr Steven Ho, Mr Lam Cheuk-ting, Mr Shiu Ka-fai and Ms Tanya Chan.

Ends/Monday, May 15, 2017
Issued at HKT 17:30

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