Financial Secretary (Hong Kong)
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Financial Secretary (Traditional Chinese: }), often abbreviated as FS, is a position of the Hong Kong Government. The FS assists the Chief Executive (Governor before the transfer of sovereignty) in supervising the policy bureaux as directed by the CE, mostly finance and economy-related, and plays a key role in ensuring harmonisation in policy formulation and implementation. The FS is also responsible for delivering the annual budget at the Legislative Council.
Before 1940, the position was titled Colonial Tresurer.
List of Colonial Treasurers before 1937
- Alfred Lister (? -1890)
- N. G. Mitchell-Innes (1890-1895)
- A. M. Thomson (acting) (1895-1897)
- T. Sercombe Smith (1897-1898)
- A. M. Thomson (1899-1918)
- C. McI. Messer (1918-1931)
- E. Taylors (1931-1937)
List of Financial Secretaries between 1937 and 1997
- S. Caine (1937-1940)
- H. R. Butters (1940-1941)
- Sir Charles Geoffrey Shield Follows (1946-1951)
- Arthur Grenfell Clarke (1951-1961)
- Sir John James Cowperthwaite (1961-1971)
- Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave (1971-1981)
- Sir John Henry Bremridge (1981-1986)
- Sir Piers Jacobs (1986-1991)
- Sir Nathaniel William Hamish Macleod (1991-1995)
- Sir Donald Tsang (Sept 1995- June 1997)
List of Financial Secretaries after 1997
- Sir Donald Tsang (July 1997 - May 2001)
- Antony Leung (May 2001 - July 2003)
- Henry Tang (July 2003 - )
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| Secretaries of deparments: Chief Secretary | Financial Secretary | Secretary for Justice | |||
| Secretaries of bureaux: Civil Service | Commerce, Industry and Technology | Constitutional Affairs | Economic Development and Labour | Education and Manpower | Environment, Transport and Works | Financial Services and the Treasury | Health, Welfare and Food | Home Affairs | Housing, Planning and Lands | Security | |||
| Other principal officials: Audit | Police | ICAC | Customs and Excise | Immigration | |||
| Past secretaries of bureaux (after 1997): Broadcasting, Culture and Sport Bureau | Commerce and Industry | Economic Services | Environment and Food | Health and Welfare | Housing | Information Technology and Broadcasting | Planning and Lands | Trade and Industry | Transport | Treasury | Works |
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