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Hon. Members

21 March 2025 ·Debate: Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage (Twenty-sixth Day) and Third Reading

Public Finance
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Parliament agreed to amended recurrent and capital expenditure allocations in the Appropriation Bill, including Rs. 471.5741 billion for recurrent expenditure and Rs. 189.4034 billion for capital expenditure. Members also approved allocations under Head 102 for operational and development activities, including Rs. 248.693718 billion in recurrent expenditure and Rs. 13.315 billion in development capital expenditure. The proceedings then moved to Head 237, Department of National Planning, where an amendment was proposed to Programme 01 during the Committee Stage.

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¶ 01 Aye.

¶ 02 Question, “That the decreased sum of Rs. 471,574,100,000, for Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 03 Recurrent Expenditure, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 04 Question, “That the decreased sum of Rs. 189,403,400,000, for Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 05 Capital Expenditure, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 06 Question, “That the sum of Rs. 248,693,718,000, for Head 102, Programme 01, Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 07 Head 102, Programme 01, Recurrent Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 08 Programme 01 – Operational Activities – Capital Expenditure, Rs. 686,500,000

¶ 09 Question, “That the sum of Rs. 686,500,000, for Head 102, Programme 01, Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 10 Head 102, Programme 01, Capital Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 11 Programme 02 – Development Activities – Recurrent Expenditure, Rs. 12,000,000

¶ 12 Question, “That the sum of Rs. 12,000,000, for Head 102, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 13 Head 102, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 14 Programme 02 – Development Activities – Capital Expenditure, Rs. 13,315,000,000

¶ 15 Question, “That the sum of Rs. 13,315,000,000, for Head 102, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 16 Head 102, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 17 Head 237 – Department of National Planning

¶ 18 Programme 01 – Operational Activities: - Recurrent Expenditure: Rs. 163,250,000 - Capital Expenditure: Rs. 15,546,000,000

¶ 19 Sir, at the Committee Stage of the Appropriation Bill, 2025, I move the following amendment to Programme 01 of Head 237.

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