Subcommittee on Poverty

Papers

Papers provided by the Administration

LC Paper No.PaperMeeting date
CB(2)137/12-13(01) Administration's paper on poverty alleviation and work of the Preparatory Task Force on the Commission on Poverty 5 November 2012
CB(2)293/12-13(04) Administration's paper on poverty line 11 December 2012
CB(2)495/12-13(01) Administration's paper on elderly in poverty 22 January 2013
CB(2)547/12-13(01) Secretariat for the Commission on Poverty's response to the Legislative Council Secretariat's letter dated 8 January 2013 22 January 2013
CB(2)674/12-13(02) Administration's paper on housing assistance for persons with low-income 28 February 2013
25 March 2013
CB(2)823/12-13(03) Administration's paper on support for persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, new-arrivals and single-parent families 25 March 2013
8 May 2013
17 June 2013
9 July 2013
CB(2)823/12-13(01) Administration's response on relationship between housing and poverty 25 March 2013
CB(2)823/12-13(02) Administration's response on relationship between housing and poverty 25 March 2013
CB(2)1827/12-13(01) Administration's response on the number of flats occupied by sitting disabled and elderly public rental housing tenants which had undergone free home modification works in the past five years and the expenses incurred in the modification works and the time frame for providing lifts to all domestic floors in all public rental housing estates 25 March 2013
CB(2)1026/12-13(01) Administration's paper on setting "Poverty Line" 27 April 2013
8 May 2013
CB(2)1331/12-13(01) Administration's response to issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 8 May 2013 8 May 2013
17 June 2013
CB(2)1371/12-13(01) Administration's response to issues raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 8 May 2013 8 May 2013
17 June 2013
CB(2)1090/12-13(01) Administration's response to issues relating to "Poverty Line" raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 27 April 2013 8 May 2013
CB(2)1154/12-13(01) Administration's paper on injection of $15 billion into the Community Care Fund 24 May 2013
CB(2)1197/14-15(01) Evaluation report of the assistance programme under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) 24 May 2013
CB(2)476/15-16(01) Evaluation report of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) 24 May 2013
CB(2)1437/12-13(01) Evaluation reports of ten of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration 24 May 2013
CB(2)59/13-14(01) Evaluation reports of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration 24 May 2013
CB(2)1875/13-14(01) Evaluation reports of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration 24 May 2013
CB(2)74/14-15(01) Evaluation reports of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) 24 May 2013
CB(2)2170/14-15(01) Evaluation reports of the assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) 24 May 2013
CB(2)1338/12-13(03) Administration's paper on student financial assistance schemes for needy students of various education levels 17 June 2013
CB(2)1547/12-13(01) Administration's response to issues raised by the Subcommittee concerning financial assistance for needy students at the meeting on 17 June 2013 17 June 2013
9 July 2013
CB(2)1484/12-13(01) Administration's paper on support for low-income working households which are not on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance 8 July 2013
CB(2)1485/12-13(02) Administration's paper on Qualifications Framework 9 July 2013
CB(2)1528/12-13(01) Administration's paper on support for new-arrivals and single-parent families 9 July 2013
CB(2)590/13-14(01) Administration's response to issues raised by the Subcommittee regarding the number of students enrolled in the vocational English courses under the Vocational English Enhancement Programme and the numbers of applicants who had been offered 75% and 100% of subsidies to meet application fees under the Recognition of Prior Learning mechanism at the meeting on 9 July 2013 9 July 2013
CB(2)127/13-14(01) Administration's paper on the Commission on Poverty Summit and work progress of the Commission on Poverty and its Task Forces 29 October 2013
CB(2)298/13-14(01) Administration's paper on working poverty 22 November 2013
CB(2)851/13-14(01) Administration's response on the number of households and persons between 50% and 60% of the median monthly domestic household income ("MMDHI") and between 60% and 70% of MMDHI and the number of children and elderly persons in the households mentioned in above; and how many of these households were single-parent families and newly arrived families 22 November 2013
CB(2)492/13-14(01) Administration's paper on Community Care Fund 17 December 2013
CB(2)492/13-14(03) Administration's paper on helping students of limited means take advantage of the learning opportunities through the Internet 17 December 2013
CB(2)741/13-14(01) Administration's paper on promoting the development of social enterprises 28 January 2014
CB(2)767/13-14(01) Paper on promoting the development of social enterprises provided by Administration (Power-point presentation material) (Chinese version only) 28 January 2014
CB(2)1191/13-14(01) Report of the study on the Enhancing Employment of People with Disabilities through Small Enterprise Project provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) 28 January 2014
CB(2)768/13-14(01) Administration's paper on 2014 Policy Address initiatives relating to poverty alleviation 29 January 2014
CB(2)786/13-14(01) Paper on 2014 Policy Address initiatives relating to poverty alleviation provided by Administration (Power-point presentation material) (Chinese version only) 29 January 2014
CB(2)1076/13-14(01) Administration's paper on proposed Community Care Fund initiatives to assist needy post-secondary students 24 March 2014
CB(2)1832/13-14(01) Full report of the consultancy study conducted by Deloitte Consulting (Hong Kong) Limited on the provision of consultancy service for enhancing the evaluation of assistance programmes under the Community Care Fund and its executive summary provided by the Administration 24 March 2014
23 June 2014
CB(2)1312/13-14(01) Administration's paper on measures to support ethnic minoritiesin relation to employment and integration into the community 25 April 2014
CB(2)1431/13-14(01) Administration's paper on Low-income Working Family Allowance 12 May 2014
CB(2)1597/13-14(01) Administration's paper on Low-income Working Family Allowance 27 May 2014
CB(2)1819/13-14(01) Administration's paper on Community Care Fund 23 June 2014
CB(2)347/14-15(01) Administration's response to issues relating to "Community Care Fund" raised by the Subcommittee at the meeting on 23 June 2014 23 June 2014
CB(2)1945/13-14(01) Administration's response to Dr Hon Fernando CHEUNG and Hon TANG Ka-piu's letters dated 23 and 27 May 2014 respectively 2 July 2014*
CB(2)1946/13-14(01) Administration's paper on new arrivals : poverty statistics and support 7 July 2014
CB(2)2316/13-14(01) Administration's response on the number of convicted fraud Comprehensive Social Security Assistance cases involving new-arrivals in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively and the number of able-bodied and unemployed Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients who had participated in the Integrated Employment Assistance Programme for Self-reliance of the Social Welfare Department (Follow-up paper) 7 July 2014
CB(2)117/14-15(01) Administration's paper on work of the Commission on Poverty - review and way forward 28 October 2014
CB(2)451/14-15(01) Administration's paper on Community Care Fund 16 December 2014
CB(2)451/14-15(03) Administration's paper on Hong Kong's Poverty Situation in 2013 16 December 2014
CB(2)491/14-15(01) Powerpoint presentation material on poverty situation in 2013 provided by the Administration (Follow-up paper) (Chinese version only) 16 December 2014
CB(2)554/14-15(01) Administration's paper on promoting support for community economy through bazaars, social enterprises and the social innovation and entrepreneurship development fund 12 January 2015
CB(2)317/14-15(01) Administration's paper on women in poverty 12 January 2015
CB(2)728/14-15(01) Administration's paper on 2015 Policy Address initiatives relating to poverty alleviation 29 January 2015
CB(2)869/14-15(01) Administration's paper on poverty situation of persons with disabilities 24 February 2015
CB(2)917/14-15(01) Administration's response to Dr Hon Fernando CHEUNG's letter dated 5 February 2015 (Chinese version only) 24 February 2015
CB(2)1064/14-15(02) Administration's paper on enhanced support for post-secondary, secondary and primary students with special education and financial needs 23 March 2015
CB(2)1064/14-15(01) Administration's paper on provision of a one-off special subsidy for students on full grant under the School Textbook Assistance Scheme before the launch of the Low-income Family Working Allowance 23 March 2015
CB(2)1319/14-15(01) Administration's paper on measures to unleash labour force for increasing the grassroots' income 28 April 2015
CB(2)1319/14-15(04) Administration's response to Dr Hon Fernando CHEUNG's letter dated 20 April 2015 (Chinese version only) 28 April 2015
CB(2)1470/14-15(01) Administration's paper on policies and measures to support employment of persons with disabilities 19 May 2015
CB(2)1779/14-15(01) Administration's paper on promoting community economy through bazaars and social enterprises 29 June 2015
CB(2)1904/14-15(01) Administration's paper on Community Care Fund 21 July 2015
CB(2)2131/14-15(01) Administration's response on assistance programmes which have been implemented for three or more years but have not yet been regularized, and reasons for not regularizing such programmes (Follow-up paper) 21 July 2015
CB(2)44/15-16(01) Administration's paper on the Commission on Poverty Summit 2015 and work progress of the Commission on Poverty and its Task Forces 20 October 2015
CB(2)255/15-16(01) Administration's paper on poverty problems of ethnic minorities 17 November 2015
CB(2)343/15-16(01) Administration's paper on implementation of the Low-income Working Family Allowance Scheme 22 December 2015
CB(2)709/15-16(01) Administration's paper on Community Care Fund 26 January 2016
CB(2)856/15-16(01) Administration's paper on support for street sleepers 16 February 2016
CB(2)1034/15-16(01) Administration's paper on provision of a one-off grant for school-related expenses to kindergarten students 15 March 2016
CB(2)1034/15-16(02) Administration's paper on the Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report on Ethnic Minorities 2014 15 March 2016
CB(2)1609/15-16(01) Administration's response on how the rate of the flat-rate grant for school-related expenses under the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme is set (Follow-up paper) 15 March 2016
CB(2)1373/15-16(01) Administration's response on the number of non-Chinese speaking students at various levels of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong in each of the past 12 school years (Follow-up paper) 15 March 2016
CB(2)1104/15-16(01) Paper on the poverty situation of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong provided by Administration (Power-point presentation material) 15 March 2016
CB(2)1209/15-16(04) Administration's paper on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme 11 April 2016
CB(2)1209/15-16(01) Administration's paper on progress of developing bazaars and social enterprises 11 April 2016
CB(2)1953/15-16(01) Administration's response relating to review of the relevant legislation on cooperative societies, establishment of an inter-departmental platform and formulation of a policy on the development of community economy and bazaars to facilitate poverty alleviation at the district level 11 April 2016
CB(2)1904/15-16(01) Administration's response relating to the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme 11 April 2016

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