The administration has discussed the vacant position of development chief with lawmaker Paul Chan Mo-po - already tipped as a candidate for deputy financial secretary.
'If the government invites me [to be secretary for development], I will proactively consider it and I am willing to take it up,' the accountancy sector legislator said on a Commercial Radio programme yesterday.
Asked about his chances of becoming development minister, he said: 'I don't know which possible candidates Mr Leung has talked to, so I have no clue.'
The post became vacant last Thursday, less than two weeks after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's cabinet took office.
Mak Chai-kwong resigned as development minister and was arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption over possible abuse of a government rent allowance in the 1980s.
On Sunday, Leung said he was looking for someone of the right calibre to fill the post.