Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki this afternoon chaired the sixth-term Commission on Poverty's fifth meeting, during which members were briefed by a university research team on the impacts of various Targeted Poverty Alleviation Schemes.

Members were pleased to learn that the Strive & Rise Programme, the Pilot Programme on Community Living Room and the School-based After School Care Service Scheme have all met key performance indicator targets, and even exceeded some of these.

They also heard about the schemes' positive impacts on service beneficiaries' living standards and personal development, and how they affirm the effectiveness of current poverty alleviation schemes.

The research team's findings will be incorporated into a proposed "Report on Impact of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy in Hong Kong".

The report will also quantify the social value transferred to households that benefit from housing, health, education and welfare measures. This analysis will seek to reflect, comprehensively, the Government's effectiveness in alleviating poverty.

The Government aims to release the report some time in the middle of this year.