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SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND
WORKS:
development by the private
sir,
the land for
sector is normally tendered
although occasionally it is let by private treaty grant.
And it is very much a question of the open market. The
land goes for the price which is bid for it. There is no
specific incentive offered by the Government or a measure
taken by the Government to force down prices for land for
really talking about land
land at
these
purposes, so we are really
market value.
DR. CHIU: Sir, will
will the Government inform this Council
what is the proportion of civil servants in the new towns,
as compared with that in urban areas, bearing in mind that
the population in the new towns accounts for more than one
quarter of the total population in Hong Kong ?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS:
Sir, as I mentioned
earlier, I am afraid that I am not able to provide figures
off the top of my head but I am sure that we could make a
fair
assessment of the
numbers
Service of those people employed
those
certainly in the Civil
in the new towns and
will be
be happy to give
employed elsewhere and I
Dr. CHIU a written answer to that question. (See Annex I'.)
MR. POON CHI-FAI (in Cantonese): Sir, in the development
of new towns, very often the Government
consideration a balance, particularly in
takes
into
co-ordinating
land uses for the purpose of providing job opportunities.