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Supplementary to Question No. 7 on 12.3.86

advisory

Mrs. Tam: Sir, concerning the membership of

committees, will the Government inform this Council what

the basis is in deciding whether representatives be

invited from concerned bodies or members be appointed

in a personal capacity?

The Chief Secretary: Sir, the position varies from committee

but in general members are appointed ad

to committee,

personum, in some cases though representative organisations

are invited to make nominations of members.

Mr. Hu: Sir, does Government consider it important for

federated bodies representing various fields of service

to be represented in important Government policy making

advisory committees? If so, could provision be made for

such representation in the Social Welfare Advisory Committee?

The Chief Secretary: Sir, there are many factors which affect

consideration about the representativeness of a particular

organisation in a particular field and the possible

existence of competing organisations in that field to

claim representativeness.

In some cases the organisation

concerned is invited to nominate a representative but where

there is competition in that field then it is better, I

think, that we should nominate on an individual ad

personum basis.