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LegCo Public Accounts Committee to hold short public hearings 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 short public hearings on "Employees Retraining Board" (Chapter 3), "Management of insolvency services" (Chapter 6) and "Management of short term tenancies by the Lands Department" (Chapter 7) of the Director of Audit's Report No.74 tomorrow (June 12) in Conference Room 2 of the LegCo Complex.

     Eleven witnesses have been invited to appear before the above short hearings respectively to respond to points raised in the Report and answer questions asked by the PAC members. The programmes are as follows:

Date: June 12 (Friday)
Time: 11.15am
Venue: Conference Room 2 
Subject: Employees Retraining Board (Chapter 3 of the Director of Audit's Report No.74)

Witnesses:
Dr Law Chi-kwong
Secretary for Labour and Welfare

Mr Daniel Fong
Principal Assistant Secretary for Labour and Welfare (Manpower)

Mr Byron Ng
Executive Director,
Employees Retraining Board

Mr Patrick Pang
Deputy Executive Director (Training Services),
Employees Retraining Board

Time: 11.55am
Venue: Conference Room 2
Subject: Management of insolvency services (Chapter 6 of the Director of Audit's Report No.74)

Witnesses:
Mr Christopher Hui
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury

Mr Sam Hui
Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Financial Services)3

Ms Phyllis McKenna
Official Receiver

Mr Ronald Fu
Assistant Official Receiver (Case Management)

Time: 12.30pm 
Venue: Conference Room 2 
Subject: Management of short term tenancies by the Lands Department (Chapter 7 of the Director of Audit's Report No.74)

Witnesses:
Mr Michael Wong
Secretary for Development

Ms Karen Chan
Acting Director of Lands

Ms Angela Chan
Assistant Director (Specialist 2)
Lands Department

     The 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/Thursday, June 11, 2020
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