Clarification by Minister for National Development

1.02 pm

The Minister for National Development (Mr Desmond Lee): Mr Speaker, I would like to make a clarification in relation to a written answer that we made on 11 November 2024 in response to a Parliamentary Question filed by Mr Louis Chua. [Please refer to "Estimated HDB BTO Units to be Launched from 2025 Onwards Available for Eligible Singles", Official Report, 11 November 2024, Vol 95, Issue 145, Written Answers to Questions for Oral Answer not Answered by End of Question Time section.]

We had discovered this typographical error in the course of reviewing some of the answers. The answer cited the following statistic, "From 2024 to 2026, HDB will launch up to 14,000 2-room flexi Build-To-Order (BTO) flats island-wide. This is more than a 50% increase from the 9,000 units launched in the non-mature estates from 2020 to 2023."

There was an error in that statistic. The period that we had meant to cite was not "2020 to 2023", but "2021 to 2023", which is a three-year period that is comparable to the period that we cited in the reply "2024 to 2026", which is a three-year period, in the sentence in my answer.