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I intend the new Executive Council
to be a non-political body to which I can
look for sound, impartial advice on the wide
range of issues that come before the
Administration.
I
am,
therefore,
I
appointing to ExCo senior officials of our
Government and a number of independent
members of the community, distinguished in
their own walks of life, who can give me
advice without the conflicting loyalties of
active day-to-day political involvement.
also intend that ExCo should spend more time
on strategic issues, and less оп the
minutiae of government, than has recently
been the case. I shall be asking its non-
official Members from time to time to
develop policies with the Administration in
those fields where they have particular
expertise. Those will be the policies which
it will then be the Administration's task to
this Council, explain to
and to persuade
this Council to adopt
adopt and develop. What
accountability means in practice is creative
dialoque
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between the Administration and you
and that is the area to which I next turn.
:
LegCo's President
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