Hong Kong's leader, John Lee, stated that a new departmental accountability system is designed to promote internal self-improvement in policy formulation. The mechanism aims to improve departmental support rather than assign blame to specific individuals.

Hong Kong’s top-ranking civil servants will be held accountable if they fail to provide adequate support in policy formulation, the city’s leader has said, despite a new investigation mechanism that primarily targets department heads. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday that the proposed “Heads of Department Accountability System” was intended to promote self-improvement within departments rather than “picking on” individuals. Under the new mechanism, the chief executive, department...