11 items of subsidiary legislation and 8 other papers to be laid on the Table of the Council set out in Appendix 1

Members to ask 21 questions (6 for oral replies and 15 for written replies)

Contents of 21 questions, Members to ask such questions and public officers to reply set out in Appendix 2

(No public officer will attend this item)

(Standing over from the meeting of 20 May 2020)

(Standing over from the meeting of 20 May 2020)

(Standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper Nos. CB(3) 195/19-20 and CB(3) 218/19-20 issued on 9 and 17 December 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper Nos. CB(3) 195/19-20 and CB(3) 218/19-20 issued on 9 and 17 December 2019)

(Items 8 to 12 standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Item 13 standing over from the meeting of 13 November 2019)

(Item 14 standing over from the meeting of 11 December 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper Nos. CB(3) 195/19-20 and CB(3) 218/19-20 issued on 9 and 17 December 2019)

(Item 15 standing over from the meeting of 13 November 2019)

(Item 16 standing over from the meeting of 27 November 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper Nos. CB(3) 195/19-20 and CB(3) 218/19-20 issued on 9 and 17 December 2019)

(Items 17 and 18 standing over from the meeting of 15 January 2020)

(Items 19 and 20 standing over from the meeting of 20 May 2020)

(Standing over from the meeting of 12 June 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 12 June 2019)

Hon HO Kai-ming to ask:

Quite a number of people have become unemployed due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic. In view of this, the Government has implemented, under the existing Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme ("CSSA"), a "Special Scheme of Assistance to the Unemployed" with relaxed asset limits, which is applicable for the six-month period from 1 June to 30 November this year. Recently, I have received quite a number of requests for assistance from unemployed persons applying for CSSA. They have relayed that the relevant application procedure is cumbersome and the eligibility criteria are stringent, and some officers of the Social Welfare Department ("SWD") made things difficult for them, displayed poor attitude, and even persuaded them to give up their applications. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Martin LIAO to ask:

When making public in March this year the overall law and order situation of Hong Kong in 2019, the Police indicated that during the "anti-extradition amendment bill incidents", online publicity materials had already "turned into weapon-making handbooks or even guides to kill police", and the violent acts concerned also involved the use of petrol bombs, corrosive liquids, genuine firearms and bullets and explosives. "In order to express their dissatisfaction with society and the government, rioters chose to hurt the public and cause social panic, which exactly is the behaviour of home-grown terrorism." The Police have repeatedly pointed out that the community must vigilantly guard against the emergence of home-grown terrorism. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Elizabeth QUAT to ask:

It has been reported that some people wearing press cards or reflective press vests committed improper or illegal acts (e.g. insulting police officers with coarse and sexual harassment languages during live broadcasts, obstructing police officers in law enforcement, and even attempting to rescue persons who were being arrested) at the scenes of public events. Moreover, a junior secondary school student aged only 12 covered news in the capacity of a student journalist for an online media at the scene of an unforeseen incident. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon CHAN Han-pan to ask:

A report in 2010 pointed out that the land costs of petrol filling station ("PFS") sites in Hong Kong were double of those in Tokyo and nearly six times of those in London. Last year, a PFS site was granted at a land premium of $620 million which, when amortized over a 21-year lease term, amounted to as high as $80,000 per day or $316 per square foot per month. There are comments that high land cost is the main cause for the persistently high retail prices of auto-fuels ("pump prices"), and with Hong Kong's economy having been hard hit by the epidemic in recent months, reduction in pump prices can reduce the operating costs for commercial vehicles and the commuting costs of members of the public. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon Priscilla LEUNG to ask:

Regarding various livelihood initiatives, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Dennis KWOK to ask:

In January this year, the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("the Liaison Office") published an article in a newspaper, stating that "... we will, as always, continue to support the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in establishing and perfecting the legal system and enforcement mechanism of the Special Administrative Region to safeguard national security ..." In addition, some political figures in Hong Kong have recently initiated an online petition to urge the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("SAR") to expeditiously enact legislation on Article 23 of the Basic Law. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Andrew WAN to ask:

The Government revised in January 2019 the arrangements for payment of land premiums by the Hong Kong Housing Society ("HKHS") for its housing projects, namely (i) for its rental estates: reducing from one third of the full market value of land premium ("FMVP") to a nominal premium at $1,000, (ii) for the domestic portions of subsidized sale flat ("SSF") projects: reducing from one half to one third of FMVP and (iii) for the non-domestic portions of SSF projects: maintaining the arrangement of charging FMVP. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon CHEUNG Kwok-kwan to ask:

It has been reported that a teacher for the subject of General Studies ("GS") for primary education turned the truth upside down when teaching the history of Opium War online earlier on, arousing concerns among various sectors in the community about whether wrong perspectives of history would be instilled into students. In respect of teaching of the Chinese history in schools will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Kenneth LEUNG to ask:

In February and April this year, the Government injected $30 billion and $137.5 billion respectively into the Anti-epidemic Fund for launching two rounds of relief measures. However, quite a number of members of the public, including professionals, whose livelihood has been hit by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic, have indicated that they have not benefited from the relief measures. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Charles Peter MOK to ask:

To tackle the Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic, the Department of Health ("DH") has collected hundreds of thousands of deep throat saliva samples for virus testing since January this year. Some members of the public are worried that the authorities and relevant organizations may obtain from the saliva samples the DNA sequence information of Hong Kong residents and even establish a database using such information, thereby intruding on the privacy of members of the public. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon CHAN Hak-kan to ask:

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic has been rampant in Hong Kong in recent months. Regarding the impacts caused to the environment by the various anti-epidemic measures adopted by members of the public, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Elizabeth QUAT to ask:

Regarding the operation of the Radio Television Hong Kong ("RTHK"), will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Charles Peter MOK to ask:

The 2020 Legislative Council General Election is tentatively scheduled for 6 September. Some people who have submitted applications for registration as electors for the Information Technology Functional Constituency ("ITFC") have relayed to me that owing to the implementation of special work arrangements and curtailment of certain public services by a number of government departments in recent months due to the epidemic, the progress of processing the relevant applications have been slow. They are worried that the processing of their applications cannot be completed before the publication date of the Final Registers of Electors (which must not be later than 25 July under the law), which will render them unable to vote in this election. Regarding the processing of applications for registration as electors for ITFC, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon Fernando CHEUNG to ask:

In 2012, a taxi driver who struggled when being arrested was dragged into a police car by a police officer by means of a chokehold, which caused the driver to suffer from a cervical vertebra dislocation and die after hospitalization for about one month. It has been reported that on the 7th of this month, some passers-by witnessed that a police officer, when arresting a man suspected of having criminally damaged vehicles, pinned down that man by kneeling on his neck for more than two minutes. Subsequently, that man was sent to the hospital for treatment and died on the following day. On the 10th of this month, a police officer held a journalist by a chokehold for about 20 seconds when subduing her, causing her to pass out for a while; and another police officer pinned down a Member of this Council by kneeling on his neck when arresting him, who was subsequently sent to the hospital for treatment. There are comments that police officers using the "neck restraint" ("NR") technique such as a chokehold and kneeling on a person's neck will easily cause serious bodily harms (e.g. serious damage to the anterior throat structures, cervical vertebra dislocation and fractures) or even death by asphyxiation to such person. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Kenneth LEUNG to ask:

It has been reported that the Customs and Excise Department ("C&ED") detected two smuggling cases of shark fins in April and May this year, which involved a total of 26 tonnes of fins from 38 500 sharks of controlled endangered species. Both the weight and value of the seizures have broken the past records, and the weight doubled that for the whole of 2019. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Alvin YEUNG to ask:

It has been reported that on the 12th of this month, the Education Bureau wrote to the Radio Television Hong Kong ("RTHK") requesting it to vacate and hand back the Educational Television Centre at Broadcast Drive by September this year. Besides, it is learnt that the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation has planned to resume the premises located in the InnoCentre at Tat Chee Avenue which is currently used as the office of the General Programmes Section of RTHK's Television Division. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon KWOK Ka-ki to ask:

It has been reported that on the 7th of this month, a drunken man suspected of having criminally damaged vehicles put up resistance while being arrested. As such, he was pinned down by police officers who knelt on his neck, back and hands, and beat him with batons. After being subdued, that man was sent to the hospital for treatment and died on the following day. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Michael TIEN to ask:

Amid the Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic, the Government urges members of the public through numerous channels to wash hands frequently and, after using the toilet, put the toilet lid down before flushing to avoid spreading causative agents. However, I have received complaints in recent months alleging that the Heung Che Street Public Toilet in Tsuen Wan, even after the completion of its enhancement works, unexpectedly had no flush water supply, and it was only after I made a referral of such complaints that the problem was resolved. In fact, I lodged a complaint with the Government in as early as 2019 about problems such as insufficient supply of liquid soap and damages to wash hand basins in the Tsuen Wan Multi-storey Car Park Building Public Toilet that had occurred soon after the completion of the refurbishment thereof. There are comments that although the Government has planned to spend about $600 million for implementing the Enhanced Public Toilet Refurbishment Programme over a five-year period starting from 2019-2020, the Government's monitoring ability is open to doubt, and similar problems may still plague public toilets, making it impossible to achieve the objective of enhancing the hygiene condition of public toilets. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon WU Chi-wai to ask:

As various trades have been hit by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 epidemic, the Government has rolled out two rounds of relief measures. The first-round measures include the provision of a fuel subsidy to public light buses ("PLBs"), and the second-round measures include the provision of a one-off subsidy to owners of red minibuses ("RMBs") and operators of green minibuses ("GMBs") and the provision of a subsidy to RMB drivers. However, quite a number of members of the trade have relayed that as their income has dwindled substantially amid the drop in patronage but the aforesaid subsidies are inadequate to compensate for the loss, they are still facing much difficulty in their businesses. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon SHIU Ka-chun to ask:

Several street sleepers in Tung Chau Street Park have sought my assistance, alleging that some police officers damaged their properties and assaulted them while taking law enforcement actions there in February this year. Since March, I have been assisting such persons in making data access requests, under section 18 of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, (Cap. 486) to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department ("LCSD"), and requesting copies of the video footages captured by the closed-circuit television installed by LCSD in the aforesaid park. After consulting the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong, the Department of Justice ("DoJ") and the Hong Kong Police Force ("HKPF"), LCSD made an appointment with the aforesaid persons for a meeting on 29 April to watch the relevant video footages. However, on that day before the meeting, HKPF requested LCSD to postpone the above meeting on the grounds that legal advice had to be sought. LCSD explained that, under paragraph 1.15.4 of the Code on Access to Information ("the Code"), it had to consult the government departments that were related to the data (i.e. HKPF); and given that HKPF was seeking legal advice, LCSD was for the time being unable to handle the data access requests concerned. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon LUK Chung-hung to ask:

Earlier on, the boards of HSBC Holdings plc and Standard Chartered PLC, both of which are incorporated in the United Kingdom ("UK") and listed in Hong Kong, announced that on the request of the Prudential Regulation Authority in UK, they had decided to cancel their final dividend payments for 2019 which were already announced, and to suspend any quarterly or interim dividend payments for the coming year. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council: