3 items of subsidiary legislation/instruments and 7 other papers to be laid on the Table of the Council set out in Appendix 1

Members to ask 22 questions (6 for oral replies and 16 for written replies)

Contents of 22 questions, Members to ask such questions and public officers to reply set out in Appendix 2

(Standing over from the meeting of 10 July 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper Nos. CB(3) 760/18-19 and CB(3) 55/19-20 issued on 27 June and 21 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 10 July 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 20 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 20 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 30 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 6 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 20 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 12 June 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 10 July 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper No. CB(3) 771/18-19 issued on 27 June 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 13 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 3 July 2019)

(Debate and voting arrangements set out in LC Paper No. CB(3) 723/18-19 issued on 19 June 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 23 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 30 October 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 13 November 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 12 June 2019)

(Standing over from the meeting of 12 June 2019)

Hon Mrs Regina IP to ask:

At its meeting on 4 November this year, the Panel on Public Service of this Council passed a motion moved by me, urging the Chief Executive ("CE") to issue an executive order under Article 48(4) of the Basic Law to require all civil servants to swear to uphold the Basic Law and swear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ("HKSAR"). In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether CE will exercise the executive powers conferred on her by Article 48(4) of the Basic Law, and formulate a policy and issue an executive order with reference to the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance to require all civil servants (including new appointees) to swear to uphold the Basic Law and swear allegiance to the HKSAR, so as to ensure that civil servants of all ranks and grades will work in solidarity towards common goals, and safeguard the core values of "one country, two systems", "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong" and a high degree of autonomy?

Hon KWOK Wai-keung to ask:

Recently, quite a number of purchasers of first-hand residential properties have failed to complete their property transactions due to various reasons (e.g. changing home purchase decisions or failing to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions). As a result, they had to bear losses amounting to several hundred thousand dollars at the least. According to the Residential Properties (First-hand Sales) Ordinance, if a purchaser does not execute an agreement for sale and purchase in respect of the property concerned with the vendor within five working days after entering into a preliminary agreement for sale and purchase ("the cooling-off period"), the transaction is forthwith cancelled and the vendor may forfeit the preliminary deposit which is equivalent to 5% of the purchase price ("the deposit rate"). In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon Pierre CHAN to ask:

There have been ongoing demonstrations since June this year. Conflicts and frictions between the Police and members of the public as well as media workers have occurred from time to time. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon IP Kin-yuen to ask:

The "anti-extradition to China" movement, which was triggered by the Government forcefully pushing the proposals to amend the law concerning surrender of fugitive offenders, has been going on for nearly six months. It has been reported that when the Police deployed specialized crowd management vehicles (commonly known as "water cannon vehicles") to disperse the crowd by spraying colourless or coloured pepper based solution, there were from time to time innocent people being hit by the sprayed water. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon James TO to ask:

It has been almost six months since the eruption of the disturbances arising from the opposition to the proposed legislative amendments. It has been reported that the acts of some police officers in handling public events have aroused public concerns. Such acts include firing a number of tear gas rounds at universities and residential areas, shooting and injuring demonstrators under unwarranted situations, running a motor cycle into demonstrators, firing sponge rounds at journalists who were performing news covering work, spraying pepper sprays at the face of bystanders and journalists at close range, cursing and arresting bystanders, arresting District Council members who were at the scenes of demonstrations observing the situation, and arresting members of the public who donated supplies such as clothes and food. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon KWOK Ka-ki to ask:

It has been reported that on the 11th of this month, a traffic police officer, while clearing roadblocks, pulled out his service revolver and pointed it at the chest of a man several feet away. The two persons then drew close to each other and got into a scuffle. While grabbing that man in a headlock with his left arm, the traffic police officer pointed his service revolver at another unarmed, black-clad man walking toward him, and fired at him without giving a warning. The black-clad man was shot and fell to the ground. Without examining the injuries of the black-clad man who was lying face down on the ground and unresponsive, an anti-riot police officer, who subsequently arrived for reinforcement, used plastic strings to tie the left hand of that man, turned him over and pulled him up to sit on the ground. The man wounded with the gunshot was subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment and was in a critical condition at one time. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon WONG Ting-kwong to ask:

Some members of the tourism industry have relayed that the disturbances arising from the opposition to the proposed legislative amendments, which erupted in June this year and have not yet subsided, have dealt a heavy blow to Hong Kong's tourism industry and affected the livelihood of the practitioners of the tourism industry. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Martin LIAO to ask:

The Transport and Housing Bureau has recently indicated that the Government "will consider legislative amendments to stipulate the conditions and supporting measures required for trials of autonomous vehicles so as to foster a suitable and safe road environment for such trials and promote the development and application of autonomous vehicles". In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon SHIU Ka-fai to ask:

Some representatives of the pharmacy trade and pharmacists have relayed to me that registered pharmacists practising in community pharmacies may perform an important function of enhancing primary healthcare services, thereby alleviating the burden on the public healthcare system. For example, they may provide members of the public with services such as drug consultation and inspection, guidance on proper medication, simple tests (measuring cholesterol, blood glucose and blood pressure levels), and advice on seeking medical treatment. On the other hand, the pharmaceutical trade has been fighting for over a decade for implementing in Hong Kong a system of separation of prescribing from dispensing of drugs ("SPD") (i.e. doctors being responsible for disease diagnosis and prescription only while pharmacists for drug dispensing). However, the Government has not given any definite response so far. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon LEUNG Yiu-chung to ask:

It is learnt that on the afternoon of 20 October this year, anti-riot police officers stopped a male passer-by on Jordan Road, and arrested him for the offence of unlawful assembly. While he was being detained, his legal representative had enquired of the Police about the identity of the police officer who made the arrest. However, the Police gave different answers on three occasions. On the first occasion, the answer was that the police officer belonged to the Police Tactical Unit, but details of his identity could not be disclosed owing to the sensitivity of his identity; on the second occasion, the answer was that they had no idea; on the third occasion, the answer was that the police officer belonged to the Commercial Crime Bureau. Furthermore, the Police had continued to detain the man without instituting any prosecution. His legal representative has pointed out that the Police are not empowered to detain members of the public arbitrarily, and must expeditiously and, within 48 hours from the time of arrest, make the decision of either laying charges against or releasing the arrestees. Considering that the Police's actions of arresting and detaining his client were unlawful, that legal representative made an application to the High Court on 21 October for a writ of habeas corpus, demanding the Police to release his client. The representative of the Department of Justice indicated in the court that the man would not be prosecuted, and the man was then released. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Kenneth LEUNG to ask:

The Government conducted a public consultation on 2025 Air Quality Objectives Review from July to October this year. The consultation paper recommends, among others, that the average 24-hour concentration limit stipulated for fine suspended particulates (i.e. PM2.5) in the Air Quality Objectives ("AQOs") be tightened, but that the number of exceedances allowed be relaxed from the current level of 9 to 35 a year. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Tony TSE to ask:

The Chief Executive has indicated in this year's Policy Address that the Government "plan[s] to modify more than 170 public play spaces managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department ('LCSD') over the next five years. To make the facilities more innovative and fun, while meeting the needs of residents, LCSD will encourage and promote community participation and public engagement in the process of modifying these facilities". In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Gary FAN to ask:

Since the eruption of the "anti-extradition to China" movement in June this year, the Police have deployed, for dealing with hundreds of large-scale public events, specialized crowd management vehicles (commonly known as "water cannon vehicles") from 25 August onwards to spray coloured water to disperse crowds, and issued extendable batons and pepper sprays to off-duty police officers from 10 September and 15 October onwards respectively to facilitate their discharge of duties in case of emergency. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon WU Chi-wai to ask:

The Police have stated that under sections 50(3) and (4) of the Police Force Ordinance (Cap. 232), if police officers have reasonable doubts that someone may have committed a criminal offence in any public or private place, police officers have the power to enter the place concerned to make arrests. Section 50(3) of Cap. 232 provides that "[i]f any police officer has reason to believe that any person to be arrested has entered into or is in any place the person residing in or in charge of such place shall on demand of that police officer allow him free ingress thereto and afford all reasonable facilities for search therein". Regarding law enforcement by police officers on private premises (including various types of subsidized sale housing), will the Government inform this Council:

Prof Hon Joseph LEE to ask:

Since the eruption of the "anti-extradition to China" movement in June this year, the Police have fired thousands of tear gas rounds to disperse demonstrators. It has been reported that on the 2nd of this month, a volunteer first-aider was allegedly shot by a tear gas round made in China which resulted in serious burns on his back. Besides, as measured by some reporters at the scenes of conflicts, the temperature of the sparks discharged during combustion of tear gas rounds was as high as 252 degrees Celsius, which can set alight miscellaneous objects and cause second degree burns in human bodies. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Dr Hon Fernando CHEUNG to ask:

Regarding the Police Welfare Fund, the Police Children's Education Trust and the Police Education and Welfare Trust, will the Government inform this Council of the following during the period between 1 June and 31 October this year:

Dr Hon CHIANG Lai-wan to ask:

The Government has indicated that there are more than 30 000 leases for lands in the New Territories (including New Kowloon) which were made for terms expiring in mid-2047. Regarding the extension of such land leases and related matters, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Dennis KWOK to ask:

It has been reported that since June this year, during a number of public meetings and processions relating to the "anti-extradition to China" movement, a large number of demonstrators, bystanders and passers-by were arrested, and quite a number of persons were taken to police stations to assist in investigations. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Kenneth LAU to ask:

Aquilaria sinensis ("incense tree") is an endangered species listed in an international convention, and therefore the import, export and re-export of agarwood specimens are subject to statutory control. Since incense trees are of medicinal value and their prices are high, a large number of incense trees in the southern part of the Mainland have been felled, with only a small number left at present. Some New Territories villagers have relayed that in recent years, the illegal felling of incense trees in Hong Kong has been rampant, particularly in districts such as Sha Tau Kok, Sai Kung, Sha Tin, Tai Po and Lamma Island. In the Sha Tau Kok Frontier Closed Area, 20 incense trees were illegally felled in 2016, and another one was felled in a recent month. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council

Hon Holden CHOW to ask:

Recently, some civil servants made remarks on the Internet discrediting the "one country, two systems", and a civil servant was arrested for alleged participation in an unlawful assembly. Moreover, the Education Bureau ("EDB") earlier on issued a letter of condemnation to two teachers who had made hostile remarks on the Internet against the Police. Some parents hold the view that such disciplinary action is inadequate to reflect the severity of that kind of incidents as the relevant remarks may incite students to take part in unlawful activities. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon Jimmy NG to ask:

The number of private cars in Hong Kong increased from 402 000 in 2006 to 626 000 in September 2019 (representing a 56% increase). However, the ratio of parking spaces for private cars to such vehicles dropped from 1.51 in 2006 to 1.1 in 2019, reflecting that the shortage of car parking spaces has aggravated. Regarding parking spaces for private cars, will the Government inform this Council:

Hon HUI Chi-fung to ask:

Regarding the arms and ammunition (including tear gas rounds, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds and sponge rounds) used by the Hong Kong Police Force, will the Government inform this Council: