Annual Report 2022

The Legislative Council seeks to engage with the public and enhance public understanding of its work. A range of education, visitor, and multimedia services are available to bring up-to-date information of the Council to the public. The Council has also connected with the public via its website and other social media channels.

A wide range of education and visitor services provided for the public in the Legislative Council Complex are designed to give participants the opportunity to meet and engage with Members. During the session, these services were gradually resumed starting from November 2022 in light of the Government’s relaxation of social distancing measures in response to the latest COVID-19 epidemic situation. In total, Members attended 108 activity sessions organized for 2 037 students and visitors from November 2022 to January 2023. These activities included conducting guided tours of the Complex and participating in education activities held for schools following the tours, such as role-play on the work of the Council and story-telling. In addition to the on-site activities, the Secretariat continued to offer online education activities for schools. With a view to fully resuming the services, a series of interactive programmes will be relaunched in the next session.

Various types of information of the Legislative Council are provided through the use of the Council’s website and mobile application to keep the public abreast of the latest development of Council business. A brand-new design website was launched in January 2022 to better facilitate website users in getting first-hand information in an even more timely manner. To enhance the dissemination of information, the video records of open meetings and activities of the Council and its committees are posted on the YouTube channel, and the relevant photos are uploaded to the Flickr album for viewing and sharing. Meanwhile, the mobile application with functions such as “Press Release”, “Latest Publications” and “Push Notification” provides the public using mobile devices a quick access to the most up-to-date information about the Council.