On the second part of the honourable member's question, the question he raised is one that we will hope to be pursuing through the Joint Liaison Group when the Chinese authorities respond to proposals that we've put to them. But, of course, the honourable gentleman is correct in drawing attention to the difficulty of accommodating the concept which has plainly been implemented in Peking in the last 24 hours, with the common law. I could draw some parallels from English political history, but they might be parallels that got me into difficulty. But I do think that there are tensions, as I've said before, between the Basic Law and the common law and that our independent courts are the right place to resolve those tensions. Many honourable members write and say things about the Hong Kong Government, but they're still here asking me questions today.
Dr John Tse Wing-ling (in Chinese): Recently, the Gini co-efficient shows that there is a disparity between the rich and the poor and the situation is getting worse. Yesterday we passed a motion on the Old Age Pension Scheme and only 70,000 elderly people are recipients of CSSA and they are below the subsistence level. Now without crashing the car, how can we resolve this problem Mr Governor?
Governor: Well I don't think there's any danger of us crashing the car. We have after all passed the advanced motoring test, as the International Monetary Fund have just pointed out, it's something to which I shall refer again if I get the opportunity. We've just had our regular consultation with the International Monetary Fund, the so-called article 4 consultations. The International Monetary Fund review the economy of individual countries from time to time. They've given us about as favourable report as one could possibly hope to receive. Their only concerns are that we might be encouraged to depart from the policies that we've been pursuing, but there's no question of us doing that. I very much hope that when the Chinese executive director of the World Bank is told about those findings by the UK representative to the International Monetary Fund and the IBRD, he'll pass on the good news to other Chinese officials so they will be better informed in any future discussions of the Hong Kong economy and its management.