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As singleton hostels are established to tulfil Governments commitment to rehouse half of the bedspace apartment lodgers, it is not considered opportune to relax the eligibility criteria at this uncture to include non-bedspace apartment lodgers, such as street sleepers and pubix assistance recipients To do so will reduce our ability to rehouse needy bedspace apartment lodgers into singleton hostels at the appropriate time.
Government will keep under review the effectiveness and the development of hostels run by the Home Affairs Department in rehousing bedspace apartment lodgers.
End/Wednesday. February 22, 1995
Review of LegCo election expense limits under way
Following is a question by the Hon Henry Tang Ying-ven and a reply by the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs. Mr Nicholas Ng. in the I egislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
The 1995 Legislative Council Election will involve several modes of election and there will be a wide difference in the number of voters among the different constituencies, especially in the case of the newly created 9th functional constituency In view of this, will the which will have a particularly large number of voters Government inform this Council what criteria it will adopt determine the maximum scale of election expenses for different constituencies so thai tair competition can be achieved?
Reply:
Mr President.
Election expense limits for Legislative Council Municipal Council, and District Board elections set the maximum which candidates for these elections may spend on their campaigns. As the name of the term implies, the limits merely prescribe the overall ceilings. Within the limits. candidates are entirely free to spend their resources in whatever ways they deem fit Needless to say they are also entirely free to spend as much or as little as they like. provided they stay within the prescribed limits.