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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1994

OVERSEAS PROFESSIONALS' JOB APPLICATIONS

FOLLOWING IS A QUESTION BY THE HON FREDERICK FUNG KIN-KEE AND A WRITTEN REPLY BY THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR LAM WOON-KWONG, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) :

QUESTION: WILL THE GOVERNMENT INFORM THIS COUNCIL :

(A)

(B)

OF THE NUMBER OF OVERSEAS PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE APPLIED TO WORK IN THE TERRITORY, AND THE SUCH APPLICATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN APPROVED, THE PAST THREE YEARS;

OF THE NATIONALITIES OF THOSE OVERSEAS WHERE APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED;

NUMBER OF IN EACH OF

PROFESSIONALS

(C) WHETHER THERE ARE ANY QUOTA RESTRICTIONS EMPLOYMENT OF OVERSEAS PROFESSIONALS FOR THE SECTOR; AND

ON

THE PRIVATE

(D) OF THE CRITERIA USED FOR APPROVING OVERSEAS

PROFESSIONALS TO WORK IN THE TERRITORY?

REPLY:

MR PRESIDENT,

(A)

OUR

BY

CURRENT STATISTICS DO NOT CONTAIN A BREAKDOWN PROFESSIONS. THE BEST POSSIBLE INFORMATION WE CAN PROVIDE IS THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FOR ENTRY FOR EMPLOYMENT (EXCLUDING APPLICATIONS TO WORK AS DOMESTIC HELPERS, AND AS SKILLED LABOURS UNDER THE GENERAL IMPORTATION OF LABOUR SCHEME OR THE AIRPORT SCHEME) FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS :

1991 1992

1993

APPLICATION

APPROVAL

17,547

12,867

18,525

13,859

22,019

17,202

/(B) A BREAKDOWN

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