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To further enhance the transparency of its operation, the Medical Council now announces the reasons for its decisions at the conclusion of an inquiry. It is hoped that by so doing, all parties concerned will be better informed of the Medical Council's decision. I hope these measures will be able to meet the Hon. Member's concern. We will, of course, continue to keep this issue in view.

End/Wednesday, October 18, 1995

Container vehicles theft

The following is a question by the Hon Cheng Yiu-tong and a reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday): Question:

In view of the fact that the problems of theft of tractors of container vehicles which has become rather serious at present, will the Government inform this Council:

(a) whether the administration is aware of the problem and what measures does

it have to tackle it; and

(b) of the number of cases involving the theft of tractors of container vehicles

over the past two years?

Reply:

Mr President,

Separate statistics on stolen container tractors is available only since October 1994; before that, it was grouped under the category of goods vehicle. As such, I can only provide the figures for the past twelve months. During that period, a total of 441 container tractors were stolen, of which 112 (or 24.5%) have been recovered. These 441 stolen container tractors represent 9.3% of the total of 4.725 vehicles stolen during the same period.