The Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe (on behalf of the Hon. Lasith Bhashana Gamage)
A question was raised to the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development regarding expired food items reportedly accumulated at the CWE Welisara Warehouse Complex. It sought clarification on whether the Minister was aware of the stock, why it had been stored there, why it had expired, and what action would be taken against officials responsible for allowing such a large quantity of food items to expire.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development:
¶ 02 (a) (i) whether he is aware that expired food items have been accumulated at the Welisara Warehouse Complex belonging to the CWE;
¶ 03 (ii) the reason for accumulating them there;
¶ 04 (iii) the reason for their expiry; and
¶ 05 (iv) the action to be taken against officials responsible for the expiry of such a large quantity of food items?
¶ 06 (b) If not, why?
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 5 June 2025 ·No. 1750828922068945 ·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/21293
Cite as: The Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe (on behalf of the Hon. Lasith Bhashana Gamage). 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 June 2025. No. 1750828922068945. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/21293