Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698831766650.pdf (Singapore)
THIRTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF SINGAPORE SECOND SESSION ORDER PAPER FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2019 No.

96 11.00 am QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER *1.

*2.

*3.
*2.

*3.

Dr Chia Shi-Lu: To ask the Minister for Health in light of the recent incident concerning mistakes in computation for Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) subsidies (a) how often are audits conducted for individual clinics' CHAS-related accounts; (b) whether subsidy computations can be computed onsite so that patients can verifY the amounts themselves; and (c) whether the Ministry will consider building in-house computation capabilities so that this task need not be outsourced.
Assoc Prof Walter Theseira: To ask the Minister for Health in light of the IT error in the provision ofCHAS subsidies (a) how frequently are checks for accuracy and reliability performed on such IT systems and how are these checks performed; (b) to what extent will the costs of incorrectly providing higher subsidy tiers be recoverable from the system vendor; (c) what are the principles determining which healthcare IT systems are outsourced; and (d) whether the outsourcing of means-testing IT systems will be reviewed so as to build key competencies within Government.
Assoc Prof Daniel Gob Pei Siong: To ask the Minister for Health concerning the computer system error resulting in inaccurate CHAS subsidies being given to 7, 700 recipients (a) whether there was feedback by the recipients about the errors; (b) if so, how was the feedback responded to; (c) how was the computer system error discovered; and (d) what was the cost of the error to the Ministry.

No.96 1 MARCH2019 2 ORDERS OF THE DAY 1.

2.


Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure for the financial year 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 (Paper Cmd.

20 of2019)- Committee of Supply (Allotted Day).

[For amendment to be moved in the Committee of Supply, see Supplement No.

17 dated 1 March 2019.]

the financial year 1 April 2019 Estimates for to 31 March 2020 (Paper Cmd.

19 of2019) -Committee of Supply (Progress: 28 February 2019) (2"d Allotted Day).
Resumption of Debate on Question (28 February 2019) "That the total sum to be allocated for Head J of the Estimates be reduced by $100.

"- (Mr Vikram Nair).

[For amendments to be moved in the Committee of Supply, see Supplement No.

16 dated 28 February 2019.]

QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER 1.


Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang: To ask the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources (a) what current percentage of cleaning companies apply the progressive wage model to their foreign cleaners; and (b) whether the Ministry will start collecting such data if it does not currently do so.

2.
2.

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang: To ask the Minister for Education in each of the past five years, how much funding has the Ministry provided on a per-school basis and a per-student basis respectively to (i) secondary schools offering the Special Assistance Plan and {ii) secondary schools not offering the Special Assistance Plan.