| Date
| Context
| Summary of development
| Action
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| 30.3.00
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the measures to promote employment, training, retraining and continuing education in the 2000-2001 Budget, which covered the Youth Pre-employment Training Programme, the IT Assistant Course and Project Springboard (renamed as Project Yi Jin on 25 April 2002). [Paper]
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| 26.5.00
| FC
| FC gave approval for [Paper] -
| (a) | a new commitment of $246 million for the introduction of an on-the-job training component as part of the Youth Pre-employment Training Programme and to continue with the Programme in 2000 and 2001;
| | (b) | a new commitment of $36 million to provide additional Information Technology training places at the junior assistant level in 2000 and 2001; and
| | (c) | a new commitment of $200 million to support the Project Springboard for three academic years from 2000-2001, and the development of a web-site on continuing education.
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| 10.00
| AUD
| Director of Audit conducted a value-for-money audit on Employees Retraining Scheme. [Report]
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| 2.01
| PAC
| PAC considered in detail report of the Director of Audit on Employees Retraining Scheme. [Report "page 152"]
PAC noted the Government Minute on Employees Retraining Scheme. [Follow-up report "page 67"]
PAC noted the Government Minute on the follow-up actions taken by the Employees Retraining Board (ERB). [Follow-up report "page 37"]
PAC noted the Government Minute on the results of the job retention surveys conducted by ERB. [Follow-up report "page 30"]
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| 15.3.01
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the preliminary proposal of ERB to launch a Self-employment Business Start-up Assistance Scheme (SBSA Scheme) to provide enhanced support for retrainees who possessed specific vocational skills to become self-employed. ERB proposed to set aside $50 million from the Employees Retraining Fund as its total commitment to the Scheme. [Paper]
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| 17.5.01
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed Skills Upgrading Scheme to provide skills upgrading training for workers with low education level for two years up to 2003. [Paper]
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| 1.6.01
| FC
| FC approved a new commitment of $400 million under Head 146 Government Secretariat Education and Manpower Bureau to provide skills upgrading training for workers with low education level. [Paper]
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| 4.7.01
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the further details of ERB's proposal to launch a SBSA Scheme on a pilot basis for two years up to 2003. The Scheme would provide assistance to trainees who had completed ERB's full-time or part-time self-employment courses and who were unemployed. [Paper]
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| 6.7.01
| FC
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| FC gave approval for -
| | (a) | the Secretary for Education and Manpower (SEM) to guarantee loans taken out by eligible ERB trainees under the Board's SBSA Scheme;
| | (b) | the creation of a new Capital Account Subhead "Self-employment Business Start-up Assistance Scheme" with a commitment of $50 million for SEM to meet liabilities arising from the guarantees in (a) above. Expenditure under this subhead will be offset against Government's recurrent subvention to ERB; and
| | (c) | the delegation of authority to the Secretary for the Treasury to vire funds not exceeding $50 million on a cost-neutral basis between the ERB subvention subhead "Head 177 Subventions: Non-departmental Public Bodies Subhead 537 Employees Retraining Board" and the new subhead proposed in (b) above. [Paper]
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| 31.10.01
| CQ
| Hon Audrey EU raised a question on the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training. [Hansard "page 22"]
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| 15.11.01
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on a proposal to continue the Youth Pre-employment Training Programme (YPTP) on a recurrent basis beyond 2001-2002, initially for a period of five years. The YPTP was launched in September 1999 for young school leavers aged between 15 and 19. In May 2000, FC approved funding to continue the Programme in 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. The object of the programme is to prepare young people for employment and bridge them into jobs through workplace attachment. [Paper]
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| 20.12.01
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed Continuing Education Fund (CEF), which was an initiative announced in CE's 2001 Policy Address to set aside $5 billion to subsidize eligible applicants for promotion of continuing education and preparing Hong Kong for the transition to a knowledge-based economy. [Paper]
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| 28.2.02
| MP
| The Panel discussed the Administration's proposal to seek FC's approval of an additional commitment of $54 million to continue the provision of 1 000 Information Technology (IT) training places each year at the junior assistant level on the IT Assistant Course from 2002-2003 to 2004-2005. [Paper]
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| 21.3.02
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the details of the proposed implementation arrangements for CEF. [Paper]
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| 18.4.02
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed Youth Work Experience and Training Scheme (YWET Scheme) to better equip unemployed young people aged between 15 and 24 for employment. [Paper]
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| 26.4.02
| FC
| FC approved a new commitment of $400 million for the Labour Department to introduce a YWET Scheme for a period of two years starting from July 2002. [Paper]
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| 26.4.02
| FC
| FC approved the creation of a new commitment of $5,000 million for launching CEF to encourage continuing education and thereby better preparing Hong Kong's workforce for the knowledge-based economy. [Paper]
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| 26.4.02
| FC
| FC approved to increase the approved commitment for the IT Assistant Course from $36 million by $54 million to $90 million for continuing the provision of 1 000 IT training places each year at the junior assistant level from 2002-2003 to 2004-2005. [Paper]
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| 27.6.02
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the Administration's proposal to increase the fee reimbursement for needy students of Project Yi Jin. [Paper]
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| 20.2.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the pilot project "Action S4" to help the more vulnerable trainees of YWET Scheme obtain on-the-job training opportunities. [Paper]
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| 28.3.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on two new employment programmes for the middle-aged job-seekers, namely, the Re-employment Training Programme and the District Employment Programme. [Paper]
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| 28.3.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the Administration's review of Project Yi Jin. [Paper]
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| 24.4.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed Graduate Employment Training Scheme (GET Scheme) for university graduates to be launched in 2003-2004 with a view to encouraging employers to employ university graduates and provide them with on-the-job training. [Paper]
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| 25.4.03
| FC
| FC approved to create a new commitment of $60 million for the Labour Department to introduce a Re-employment Training Programme for the Middle-aged. [Paper]
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| 3.6.03
| FC
| FC approved to create a new commitment of $26 million for the Labour Department to introduce the GET Scheme. [Paper]
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| 19.6.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the package of proposed measures to relieve the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) on unemployment. [Paper] The paper gave a brief account on the package of enhanced employment measures to create about 32 000 additional employment and training opportunities, with a funding requirement of $715 million.
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| 4.7.03
| FC
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| FC approved a total funding of $715 million for the following employment and training relief measures [Paper]
| | (a) | strengthen the Youth Pre-employment Training Programme to provide comprehensive pre-employment training and workplace attachment for school-leavers aged 15 to 19;
| | (b) | create short-term jobs with a training element in a wide spectrum of arts, sports, cultural, social, tourism, environmental and leisure-related areas for young people;
| | (c) | strengthen the Skills Enhancement Project to provide more short-term training opportunities for serving/displaced employees of trades severely affected by SARS;
| | (d) | provide incentive allowance for more local domestic helpers to promote their employment;
| | (e) | create jobs in support of special improvement in environmental hygiene to reinforce the Government's efforts to clean up Hong Kong; and
| | (f) | recruit additional community work organizers to strengthen support for able-bodied Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients.
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| 17.7.03
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the outcome of the review on CEF and the Administration's recommendation of relaxing CEF's eligibility criteria to include degree holders. [Paper] The Panel also noted the statistics on the CEF Scheme. [Paper]
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| 1.04
| MP
| The Panel noted the report on the outcome of a review on CEF and the Administration's decision to expand the coverage of CEF to include additional sectors and skills domains. [Paper]
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| 12.2.04
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed extension of the YWET Scheme for two years to place 10 000 young people aged 15 to 24 into employment. [Paper]
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| 27.2.04
| FC
| FC approved an increase in the approved commitment from $400 million by $300 million to $700 million to extend the YWET Scheme so that further batches of trainees might be admitted into the Scheme beyond mid-2004. [Paper]
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| 22.4.04
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed ambit and operational arrangements of the Youth Sustainable Development and Engagement Fund (YSDE Fund). The Fund was established to promote trial schemes and explore opportunities for training, placement and employment for young people as recommended by the Commission on Youth in its report titled "Continuing Development and Employment Opportunities for Youth". The Government had accordingly earmarked $50 million for establishment of the Fund and it was expected to last for two years. [Paper]
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| 20.5.04
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the additional information on the scope of the proposed pilot projects under each of the five strategic project categories to be supported by the YSDE Fund. The additional information was provided by the Administration in response to the Panel's request at its meeting on 22 April 2004. [Paper]
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| 11.6.04
| FC
| FC approved the creation of a new commitment of $50 million for setting up the YSDE Fund. [Paper]
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| 10.11.04
| CQ
| Hon MA Lik raised a question on "Upper age limit for applications for Continuing Education Fund". [Hansard "page 85"]
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| 16.12.04
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the Administration's proposal to continue providing funding support for Project Yi Jin from 2005-2006 to 2007-2008. [Paper]
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| 14.1.05
| FC
| FC approved an increase in the commitment for Project Yi Jin (PYJ) from $200 million to $435 million to continue the provision of financial support for PYJ in respect of the existing full-time and part-time students, and students to be admitted beyond the 2004-2005 academic year. [Paper]
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| 26.4.05
| MP
| The Panel discussed a paper on the proposed Work Trial Scheme, which aimed to provide 2000 work trial places for job-seekers who had special difficulties in finding jobs. [Paper]
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| 3.5.06
| CQ
| Hon Howard YOUNG raised a question on manpower shortage in the hotel industry. [Hansard "page 75"]
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| 10.5.06
| CQ
| Hon Frederick FUNG raised a question on employment situation for low-skilled women. [Hansard "page 75"]
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| 21.12.06
| MP
| The Panel discussed with the Administration on its plan to set up two Youth Employment Resource Centres (YERCs), one in Kowloon and the other in the New Territories, to provide one-stop advisory and support services on employment and self-employment to youths aged between 15 and 29. [Paper]
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| 11.7.07
| CQ
| Hon Selina CHOW raised a question on employees retraining levy. [Hansard "page 87"]
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| 20.2.08
| CQ
| Hon Anson CHAN raised a question on work of Employees Retraining Board. [Hansard "page 71"]
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