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     Following is a question by the Hon Sin Chung-kai and a written reply by the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Raymond Tam, in the Legislative Council today (May 29):

Question:

     Currently, half of the 70 seats of the Legislative Council are functional constituency (FC) seats. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of the following data in each year from 2008 to 2012:

(a) the percentages of the value added of the relevant industries under various FCs in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (set out in Table 1);

(b) the percentages of the numbers of employees in the relevant industries under various FCs in the labour force (set out in Table 2); and

(c) the numbers of (i) eligible electors and (ii) registered electors of various FCs when the final register of electors was published (set out in Table 3)?

Table 1

FCs                    Percentage of value added of
(excluding Labour,     relevant industries in GDP
District Council and
Heung Yee Kuk)
--------------------   ---------------------------
                       2008  2009  2010  2011  2012
                       ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
Accountancy
-----------
Agriculture and
Fisheries
---------------
Architectural,
Surveying and
Planning
---------------
Catering
--------
Commercial (First)
Commercial (Second)
-------------------
Education
---------
Engineering
-----------
Finance
-------
Financial Services
------------------
Health Services
---------------
Import and Export
-----------------
Industrial (First)
Industrial (Second)
-------------------
Information Technology
----------------------
Insurance
---------
Legal
-----
Medical
-------
Real Estate and
Construction
---------------
Social Welfare
--------------
Sports, Performing Arts,
Culture and Publication
-----------------------
Textiles and Garment
--------------------
Tourism
-------
Transport
---------
Wholesale and Retail

Table 2

FCs                   Percentage of the number of
(excluding Labour,    employees in the relevant
District Council      industries in the labour force
and Heung Yee Kuk)
------------------    ------------------------------
                      2008  2009  2010  2011  2012
                      ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
Accountancy
-----------
Agriculture
and Fisheries
-------------
...
---

Table 3

FCs                  (i) Number of eligible electors
(excluding         (ii) Number of registered electors
District Council
(Second))
----------------    ----------------------------------
                     2008  2009  2010  2011  2012
                     ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
Accountancy     (i)    (i)   (i)   (i)   (i)
                        (ii)   (ii)  (ii)  (ii)  (ii)
-----------
Agriculture         (i)    (i)   (i)   (i)   (i)
and Fisheries       (ii)   (ii)  (ii)  (ii)  (ii)
-------------
...
---

Reply:

President,

     The information requested by the Hon Sin Chung-kai is set out at the three tables enclosed.

Ends/Wednesday, May 29, 2013

LCQ13 Table 1

LCQ13 Table 2

LCQ13 Table 3