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To enhance awareness of safe use and storage of dangerous goods, fire prevention campaigns, visits and talks are regularly conducted by the Department. It also has a 24-hour hot-line to handle complaints concerning dangerous goods.

There are no plans at present to review or amend the existing licensing system on the storage of dangerous goods.

Jockey Club funded social activities

Following is a question by Dr the Hon Law Cheung-kwok and a written reply by the Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Katherine Fok, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Reply:

Will the Government inform this Council:

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of the amount of donation by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (the RHKJC) for funding social activities (e.g. education and sports) for which the Government is responsible in each of the past three years; and

of the measures in place to monitor the social activities funded by the donation of the RHKJC and for which the Government is responsible; and what the details of such measures are?

By convention, every year the Governor recommends to the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (RHKJC) a list of projects to be funded by them - this has been informally referred to as the annual "Governor's Shopping List" exercise. The Secretary for Health and Welfare vets the large number of initial applications and recommends a shortlist to the Governor. In the past three years (the RHKJC's financial year runs from 1 July to 30 June), the following amounts have been allocated to projects through this exercise -