Helping families and businesses amidst COVID-19

Parliamentary Question by MP Henry Kwek on 26 May 1) To ask the Minister for National Development whether HDB will ensure an adequate number of flats under the Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme for young families who are looking to start families soon and who are facing added economic uncertainties due to the COVID-19 situation. Response 2) To ask the Prime Minister in light of rapidly decreasing interest rates, whether MAS will pro-actively monitor our banks’ housing loan rates to ensure that the downward revisions are timely and fair,....

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SG Cares Volunteer Centres and Additional Support for the Arts

Cuts by MP Henry Kwek during Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth (MCCY) Committee of Supply Debate 2020 SG Cares Volunteer Centres Singapore’s caring and kindness, along with progress in our society’s civic, culture, and sports arena, is fuelled by the passion of our country’s volunteers. MCCY has done an excellent job to identify, nurture, and empower them. We need to look no further than Team Nile, or our Museum Volunteers, to see proof of that.....

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Support for Senior Workers

Cut by MP Henry Kwek during Ministry of Manpower (MOM) Committee of Supply Debate 2020 Support for Senior Workers Prior to this budget, to help our senior workers age with purpose and dignity, Singapore already has a set of pro-senior worker policies, including: Our Retirement and Re-employment Act, our Senior Employment Credit, to help our seniors stay employed, Our Enhance CPF returns to help with retirement adequacy, and Work-Pro to help our companies redesign jobs for older workers.....

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Up-skilling, Re-skilling, Job Re-design

Cuts by MP Henry Kwek during Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) Committee of Supply Debate 2020 Up-skilling, Re-skilling, Job Re-design In the face of tectonic economic and technology shifts, up-skilling and re-skilling is paramount to good employment outcomes for Singaporeans. One can argue that success in both of these are some of the hardest public policy that very governments have achieve. Why? Successful up-skilling is usually done by successful companies. Because successful companies are the ones who have a clear vision for the future,....

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