I write concerning the teaching of English and the recruitment of native English speakers.
This comment will annoy many current native English teachers, however my concern is that the standard of English being taught is not of a sufficiently high standard to provide Hong Kong with a trilingual society as exists in Singapore.
In the last 20 years or so the instruction of clear (whether 'received' or not) and grammatically correct English has not received a high priority.
Regional accents have been encouraged. Self expression has been the rule in education for both Tory and Labour governments.
Police officers in Hong Kong may inform you that when they are spoken to by officers from certain parts of the (dis)-United Kingdom, the instructions are very difficult to comprehend.
Yet I have met many officials in the mainland whose English is more grammatically correct and is clearer than many native English speakers.