The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:
 
     The Legislative Council (LegCo) Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold a public hearing on "Monitoring of charitable fund-raising activities" (Chapter 2) of the Director of Audit's Report No.68 at 9am tomorrow (June 9) in Conference Room 1 of the LegCo Complex.
 
     Ten witnesses have been invited to appear before the above hearing to respond to points raised in the Report and answer questions asked by PAC members.
 
     The programme for the public hearing is as follows:
 
Date: June 9 (Friday)
Venue: Conference Room 1

9am	Subject: Monitoring of charitable fund-raising activities (Chapter 2 of the Director of Audit's Report No.68)
	Witnesses:
	Secretary for Home Affairs Mr Lau Kong-wah
	Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs (1) Mr Laurie Lo
	Director of Social Welfare Ms Carol Yip
	Assistant Director of Social Welfare (Subventions) Mr Kok Che-leung
	Director of Home Affairs Miss Janice Tse
	Assistant Director of Home Affairs (Support) Ms Josephine Cheung
	Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene Miss Vivian Lau
	Assistant Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (Operations) (2) Mr Lam Wing-hong
	Director of Lands Ms Bernadette Linn
	Principal Land Executive (Land Control and Lease Enforcement) Lands Department Mr Patrick Leung

     PAC is chaired by Mr Abraham Shek, and its Deputy Chairman is Mr Kenneth Leung. Other members include Mr Paul Tse, Mr Steven Ho, Mr Lam Cheuk-ting, Mr Shiu Ka-fai and Ms Tanya Chan.

Ends/Thursday, June 8, 2017
Issued at HKT 15:38

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