[h=2]The Workers' Party[/h][h=2]Parliamentary Questions for 12 February 2015 Sitting[/h]
February 12, 2015 at 11:56am
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER*
*5. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Manpower since the launch of WorkPro (a) what is the total amount of funding support disbursed, with a breakdown by funding support type; (b) how many companies have applied for and received WorkPro funding support; (c) what is the average grant disbursed to each successful applicant; (d) what proportion of the amount budgeted for WorkPro in 2014 has been utilised; and (e) how does the Ministry increase awareness among companies, especially SMEs, of the funding available under WorkPro.
*7. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for National Development from 2012 to 2014 (a) what is the number and percentage of Government infrastructure projects procured that exceed the value of S$10 million that have been awarded to the lowest bidder; and (b) how many of these tenders have been awarded taking into consideration the productivity of building methods as a tender award criterion.
*10. Ms Lee Li Lian: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information with regard to M1's outages in February 2014 and October 2013 and IDA's assessment that M1 has "taken all reasonable measures" to test the RNC software upgrade before implementing it and that there has been "no undue delay" to the service restoration (a) what are all the reasonable measures that had been undertaken by M1; (b) whether IDA's assessment of the investigation into the outages is publicly available online; (c) whether there is any roll-back plan and whether a roll-back has been effected; and (d) if so, how long did it take to make the decision to do the roll-back.
*12. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs what is the rationale behind imposing fines on Marina Bay Sands and issuing censures to Resorts World Sentosa in the recent enforcement actions for social safeguard breaches when both are repeat offenders.
*21. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) what is the current number of HDB flat owners who rent out their entire flat or at least a room; and (b) what is the breakdown of these owners by Singaporean and permanent resident.
*28. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Health (a) to date, how many private general practitioner (GP) clinics have access to the National Electronic Health Records (NEHR) system; (b) what objections to adopting the NEHR have been received from GPs; (c) what are the main difficulties that current users of the system have reported; (d) what proportion of NEHR users are maintaining the same information in parallel on both NEHR and other systems like their own healthcare clusters' electronic medical records (EMRs) system; and (e) whether the delays in fully rolling out the NEHR will increase the risk of data integrity problems.
*29. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Health (a) what will Phase 2 of the implementation of the National Electronic Health Records (NEHR) system comprise; (b) how much is being budgeted for Phase 2; (c) when will Phase 2 be rolled out; and (d) when will the Government's goal of "One Patient, One Health Record" be realised.
*32. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources (a) what is the status of the tray-return initiative for hawker centres launched in 2012; and (b) what is the budget spent to date on implementing this initiative.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
1. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs if he can provide a breakdown of the number of rioting and serious hurt incidences in East Coast Park, West Coast Park and Changi Beach over the past two years of 2013 to 2014 and how many of these are linked to alcohol consumption.
4. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry what is the percentage of rental costs out of total business costs for SMEs with (i) 10 or more employees and (ii) fewer than 10 employees, for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, broken down by industry sector.
5. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry how many SMEs with fewer than 10 employees have been helped by Government schemes in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and what is the (i) total Government grant (ii) total Government-supported loan amount and (iii) average quantum that is approved for each such SME in each year.
6. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry in 2012, 2013 and 2014, how many Government-supported loan schemes such as the Internationalisation Finance Scheme have been used for the purpose of mergers and acquisitions abroad by Singapore-based companies.
8. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs (a) whether there is any balance remaining in the MUIS zakat fund after the annual disbursement exercise from 2011 to 2014; (b) if so, what is the remaining balance amount of each year from 2011 to 2014; (c) what is the reason(s) for the retention of monies in the fund annually from 2011 to 2014; and (d) what is the retention period before the balances will be fully disbursed.
10. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) what is the total number of HDB flats and private condominium units built in 2013 and 2014; and (b) out of the total number of HDB flats built, how many are meant for rental and sale respectively.
11. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) what is the number of applications received for (i) HDB Built-To-Order (BTO) flats and (ii) rental flats annually from 2008 to 2014; and (b) what is the percentage of successful applications for (i) BTO flats and (ii) rental flats annually from 2008 to 2014.
12. Mr Png Eng Huat: To ask the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources for 2010 to 2014 (a) what is the number of anti-littering campaigns that have been conducted; (b) what is the average duration of such campaigns; and (c) what is the budget spent each year.