Supplementary to Question No. 7 on 12.3.86
advisory
Mrs. Tam: Sir, concerning the membership of
committees, will the Government inform this Council what
the basis is in deciding whether representatives be
invited from concerned bodies or members be appointed
in a personal capacity?
The Chief Secretary: Sir, the position varies from committee
but in general members are appointed ad
to committee,
personum, in some cases though representative organisations
are invited to make nominations of members.
Mr. Hu: Sir, does Government consider it important for
federated bodies representing various fields of service
to be represented in important Government policy making
advisory committees? If so, could provision be made for
such representation in the Social Welfare Advisory Committee?
The Chief Secretary: Sir, there are many factors which affect
consideration about the representativeness of a particular
organisation in a particular field and the possible
existence of competing organisations in that field to
claim representativeness.
In some cases the organisation
concerned is invited to nominate a representative but where
there is competition in that field then it is better, I
think, that we should nominate on an individual ad
personum basis.