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The Hong Kong Government has no reason to doubt the guarantees provided in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law. We indeed have no locus, and therefore no intention, to ask for further guarantees from the British and Chinese Governments.

End/Wednesday, October 25, 1995

Allocation of secondary 4 places

The following is a question by the Hon Zachary Wong Wai-yin and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

In regard to the allocation of places for students promoted from Secondary 3 to Secondary 4 for the year 1995-96, will the Government inform this Council:

(a) of the number and the percentage of students allocated to school nets (i.e. those delineated for the allocation of Secondary 1 places) outside their own districts;

(b) whether there is evidence to show that the problem of students living in new towns being allocated to schools outside their districts is particularly serious; what is the number of students living in Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and the Northern District who have been allocated to schools on Hong Kong Island and outlying islands respectively;

(c) if the answer to (b) is in the affirmative, what are the reasons for such a

phenomenon;

(d) what measures the Government will adopt to address this problem?