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As you know, one of our highest priorities is to ensure that the Hong Kong Administration is directly and genuinely accountable to the community. Accountability means setting out our targets and reporting on whether we have been able to achieve these targets. The Progress Report which I have just shown you is a list of the policy commitments from earlier policy addresses, together with a report on progress with each of these commitments. The 1995 report covers 146 policy commitments from the 1992 and 1993 Policy Addresses and 325 policy commitments announced by the Governor in his 1994 Address. So today, I am reporting on a total of 471 commitments. Of these, I am very happy to be able to say: 442 or 94 per cent of the total are on target. Let me explain. This total comprises, first of all, 166 commitments which have been completed in full; 55 commitments which are on- going; 6 commitments on which we are ahead of schedule; 203 commitments which are on schedule and which we expect to be able to complete in full by their target dates; 12 commitments which are at present behind schedule, but we are confident that we shall be able to make up the lost ground and complete the work on target; and finally, 29 commitments or 6 per cent of the total, and I stress, it's only 6 per cent of the total which are behind schedule. The Progress Report identifies these undertakings and explains the reasons for the slippage. I hope that you will all agree that this is a very impressive performance on the part of the civil service. The policy commitments were ambitious targets and I think that to have achieved a 94 per cent success rate says a great deal about the professionalism and the high morale of the civil service. Of course, we will strive to do even better next year.
Question: In terms of helping the transition, what level of assistance is the Government willing and able to give the future Chief Executive, for example, how much access will he or she has to confidential information of the Government?
CS: Could we stick to the purpose of today's presentation which is the Progress Report.
Question: Sorry, that is one of the aims of the Government, isn't it, to give assistance to the future Chief Executive?
CS: I think the Governor has already said that we will co-operate fully with the Chief Executive Officer designate and his team when they are known. I am sure that the Governor will be saying a bit more on this front in his Policy Address this Wednesday.
Question: My question is really follow up on what is already in the Progress Report - how willing and able is the Government ... to assist the Chief Executive ?
CS: We are able and willing to achieve to the fullest extent possible.