The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha — Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Economic Development
The Minister provided a written answer on Employees’ Provident Fund account data from 2015 to 2024. He stated that total member accounts increased from 16.88 million in 2015 to 22.2 million in 2024, while accounts receiving annual contributions rose from 2.5 million to 2.9 million over the same period. He also supplied the annual interest rates paid on member balances for those years in the written response.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, the answer is as follows.
¶ 02 (a) (i) The number of accounts and related official figures from 2015 to 2024 are provided in the written answer. In summary, total member accounts were 16.88 million in 2015, increasing to 22.2 million by 2024. Accounts receiving annual contributions were 2.5 million in 2015, rising to 2.9 million by 2024.
¶ 03 (ii) The annual interest rates paid on member balances from 2015 to 2024 are as follows: [figures supplied in the written answer].
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 22 July 2025 ·No. 1753443916033328 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/13568
Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha — Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Economic Development. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 July 2025. No. 1753443916033328. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/13568