Statement on Long Term Housing Strategy Review
Commenting on a newspaper report, the Secretary for Housing, Mr Dominic Wong, said: "It is entirely untrue that the Government in the current review of the long term housing strategy has already formulated a policy preference to stop building public rental housing from 2001 onwards.
The review is still in the early stage. It will cover all important aspects of housing supply and demand in the next 10 years, including the types of housing to be produced. We have not yet formulated any view on the public housing programmes or other housing issues.
We hope to complete the Long Term Housing Strategy Review this summer and to produce a document for consultation with the public.
The Government will not take a view on the result before public views on the documents are received. It is far too early at this stage to suggest that there is a policy preference towards the future direction of the public housing programme."
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Helen Yu takes up office as Director of Education
Mrs Helen CP Lai Yu will take up the office of Director of Education tomorrow (Monday).
Mrs Yu succeeds Mr W K Lam who will become the Secretary for the Civil
Service.
Mrs Yu, aged 54, joined the civil service in 1965. She became an Administrative Officer in 1968 and rose to her present rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A in February 1995.
She spent the early part of her carcer in the Administrative Service in the former Social Services Branch and Home Affairs Department.
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