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Question: A large part of your new measures announced today covers drug education in school, but actually a speaker who is also a principal in the conference earlier said that the measures, actually some sort of a teaching materials are very hard to promote in school. How will you respond to that?
Governor: We'll be listening very hard to what he and other professionals have to say and I know that Helen Yu, the Director of Education, was interested in following up with him the particular proposals that he had. The people who can tell you most about the effectiveness of drug education materials are first of all the teachers who use them and secondly the pupils who are educated or are not educated as a result. So I always thought that in developing curriculum materials, in developing software, in developing teaching aids and so on, it's absolutely vital to do so hand in hand with the teaching profession and with people like the head teacher who spoke so eloquently today.
Question: Why does it take such a long time to figure out how to use the beat drugs fund?
Governor: We've been giving people the time to put forward proposals and I don't think it's taken all that long. But in any event, come this September we will have, I think, completed our survey of all the different ideas that have been put forward and we'll be able to announce the first slice of recommendations that we're prepared to support.
Question: Mr Patten, I would like to ask a different topic ...?
Governor: Can we answer any more on drugs first and then I'll answer a couple of other questions?
Question: A couple of things that came out in the summit was that one-off publicity campaign, one-off activity... are of limited use and what was needed was ...?
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