Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2020-21 Reply Serial No.

FHB(FE)106 CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY

(Question Serial No. 2497)

Head: (49) Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

Subhead (No. & title): (-) Not specified

Programme: (3) Market Management and Hawker Control

Controlling Officer: Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (Miss Vivian LAU)

Director of Bureau: Secretary for Food and Health

Question: Regarding “fixed pitch hawkers” under the indicators for “licensed hawkers”, the estimated number in 2020 is higher as compared to the actual number in 2019. Is the increase due to re-allocation of 435 vacant fixed hawker pitches and issuing of new licences? Please set out in the tables below the number of licensed hawkers trading in hawker bazaars and 43 fixed-pitch hawker areas respectively.

Number of licensed hawkers trading in hawker bazaars Number of Number of licensed licensed hawkers before hawkers re-allocation of increased due 435 vacant to re-allocation fixed hawker of 435 vacant pitches and fixed hawker issuing of new pitches and licences issuing of new licences Stanley Market Open Space Hawker Bazaar (with cooked food hawker stalls inside) Lai Yip Street Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar Tung Yan Street Interim Hawker Bazaar Hawker Bazaar (Zone A) Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar (Zone B) Temporary Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar (temporarily closed for refurbishment) Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar Woosung Street Temporary Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar (temporarily closed for refurbishment) Hawker Bazaar Hau Tei Square Hawker Bazaar Lam Tei Market cum Hawker Bazaar (with cooked food hawker stall inside) Kwai Wing Road Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar Total

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Number of licensed hawkers trading in 43 fixed-pitch hawker areas District Location of fixed Number of licensed hawkers Number of licensed hawkers pitches before re-allocation of 435 increased due to re-allocation vacant fixed hawker pitches of 435 vacant fixed hawker and issuing of new licences pitches and issuing of new licences Eastern Chun Yeung Street Marble Street Kam Wa Street Tai Tak Street Mong Lung Street Subtotal Central and Western Graham Street Li Yuen Street East Li Yuen Street West Peel Street Wing Kut Street Upper Man Wa Lane Subtotal Wan Chai Cross Street Tai Yuen Street Jardine’s Crescent Subtotal Yau Tsim Reclamation Street Pak Hoi Street Saigon Street Bowring Street Temple Street Subtotal Mongkok Canton Road Fife Street Yin Chong Street Ki Lung Street Poplar Street Subtotal Sham Wing Lung Street Shui Po Fat Tseung Street Cheung Fat Street

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Fuk Wa Street Fuk Wing Street Ki Lung Street Tai Nan Street Kweilin Street Subtotal Kowloon Pau Chung Street City Subtotal Total no. of stalls

Asked by: Hon HO Kai-ming (LegCo internal reference no.: 39) Reply: The information sought is provided in the tables below:

Number of licensed hawkers trading in hawker bazaars Number of Number of licensed licensed hawkers hawkers before increased due to re-allocation of re-allocation of vacant fixed vacant fixed hawker pitches hawker pitches and issuing of and issuing of new licences new licences (As at 31 (As at 29 December 2019) February 2020) Stanley Market Open Space Hawker Bazaar 19 - (Note) Lai Yip Street Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar 3 - (Note) Tung Yan Street Interim Hawker Bazaar 117 - (Note) Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar (Zone A) 59 - (Note) Yau Ma Tei Jade Hawker Bazaar (Zone B) 284 - (Note) Haiphong Road Temporary Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar (temporarily 0 - closed for refurbishment) (Note) Reclamation Street Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar 4 - (Note) Woosung Street Temporary Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar (temporarily 0 - closed for refurbishment) (Note) Yen Chow Street Hawker Bazaar 0 - (Note) Hau Tei Square Hawker Bazaar 90 16

Lam Tei Market cum Hawker Bazaar (with cooked food hawker stall 4 - inside) (Note) Kwai Wing Road Cooked Food Hawker Bazaar 5 - (Note) Total 585 16

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Note: The hawker bazaars listed above (except Hau Tei Square Hawker Bazaar) are not covered by the scheme of Re-allocation of Vacant Fixed Hawker Pitches and Issue of New Licences. Number of licensed hawkers trading in fixed-pitch hawker areas (including hawker streets outside 43 hawker areas*) District Location of fixed Number of licensed hawkers Number of licensed pitches before re-allocation of vacant hawkers increased due to fixed hawker pitches and re-allocation of vacant fixed issuing of new licences hawker pitches and issuing (As at 31 December 2019) of new licences (As at 29 February 2020) Eastern Chun Yeung Street 74 0 Marble Street 69 2 Kam Wa Street 85 1 Tai Tak Street 21 0 Mong Lung Street 4 0 Subtotal 253 3 Central Pottinger Street 35 1 and Graham Street 42 1 Western Gage Street 10 0 Li Yuen Street 57 0 East Li Yuen Street 50 0 West Peel Street 24 1 Wing Kut Street 32 0 Upper Lascar Row 11 1 Man Wa Lane 31 0 * 12 0 Douglas Lane* 3 1 Elgin Street* 11 0 Unnamed lane 19 0 connecting Pedder Street and Theatre Lane* Gilman’s Bazaar* 3 0 Findlay Road* 4 0 Subtotal 344 5 Wan Gresson Street 39 1 Chai Cross Street 67 2 Tai Yuen Street 74 1 Jardine’s Crescent 142 3 Wun Sha Street* 8 0 Subtotal 330 7 Yau Tsim Reclamation Street 172 5 Pak Hoi Street 13 0 Saigon Street 15 0 Canton Road 12 1 Bowring Street 85 1 Temple Street 232 2

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District Location of fixed Number of licensed hawkers Number of licensed pitches before re-allocation of vacant hawkers increased due to fixed hawker pitches and re-allocation of vacant fixed issuing of new licences hawker pitches and issuing (As at 31 December 2019) of new licences (As at 29 February 2020) Pitt Street* 6 1 Subtotal 535 10

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District Location of fixed Number of licensed hawkers Number of licensed pitches before re-allocation of vacant hawkers increased due to fixed hawker pitches and re-allocation of vacant fixed issuing of new licences hawker pitches and issuing (As at 31 December 2019) of new licences (As at 29 February 2020) Mongkok Tung Choi Street 487 9 Canton Road 251 6 Fife Street 19 0 Yin Chong Street 65 1 Ki Lung Street 6 0 Poplar Street 4 0 Fa Yuen Street 216 0 Nelson Street 43 2 Nam Tau Street* 1 0 Subtotal 1 092 18 Sham Wing Lung Street 38 9 Shui Fat Tseung Street 30 2 Po Cheung Fat Street 42 5 154 0 Fuk Wing Street 36 1 Pei Ho Street 146 0 Apliu Street 206 1 Ki Lung Street 124 0 Tai Nan Street 60 0 Kweilin Street 59 0 Subtotal 895 18 Kowloon Pau Chung Street 42 0 City Subtotal 42 0 Total no. of stall 3 491 61

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