Parliamentary Questions filed by Ms Carrie Tan at Budget 2021 and Committee of Supply 2021 To ask the Minister for National Development what is (i) the average total cost per year to the Government (inclusive of direct subsidies and administrative costs) to subsidise a public rental household (ii) the breakdown in terms of percentages between building costs, maintenance costs, direct subsidy, administrative and other costs and (iii) the average total cost involved in subsidising each public rental household before they successfully move to their own homes,....
Parliamentary Questions filed by Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang at Budget 2021 and Committee of Supply 2021 To ask the Minister for Health whether the Ministry can allow any patient regardless of prognosis to participate in the pilot for Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening (PGS) so as to increase the number of patients enrolled under the pilot study. Response To ask the Minister for Health (a) what is the average cost for participating in the pilot for Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening (PGS);....
HDB rental flats for singles I’m glad that we have reformed our housing policies for single unwed parents. I thank HDB for providing the much needed helping hand to the single unweds. We can do more also for singles. Many of the lower-income singles are in need of rental housing due to various circumstances and many are seniors. HDB does help under The Joint Singles Scheme (JSS), which requires single tenants to rent a flat together with a flatmate.....
Mr Chairman, Our social safety net approach continues to put family as the first line of support. MOH talks about aging in place. The reality is, these 2 dovetail into an untenable care load on women when it comes to elderly care. Because when we say “family”, most of the time it is daughters who end up caring for aging parents. As much as filial piety is a valued and important virtue in our Asian society,....