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Hon. Members

26 November 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Appropriation Bill, 2026 - Committee Stage, Sixteenth Allotted Day

Public Finance
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Parliament agreed to insert the increased recurrent expenditure allocation of Rs. 6.4 billion into the Schedule and approved the related amended recurrent expenditure. It also approved allocations under Head 186, including Rs. 241.5 million for Programme 01 recurrent expenditure and Rs. 25 million for Programme 01 capital expenditure, before noting Programme 02 allocations of Rs. 3.3125 billion recurrent and Rs. 8.1285 billion capital expenditure.

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¶ 01 Aye.

¶ 02 Question, “That the increased sum of Rs. 6,400,000,000, 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 sum of Rs. 241,500,000, for Head 186, Programme 01, Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 05 Head 186, Programme 01, Recurrent Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 06 Programme 01 – Operational Activities – Capital Expenditure, Rs. 25,000,000.

¶ 07 Question, “That the sum of Rs. 25,000,000, for Head 186, Programme 01, Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule” put and agreed to.

¶ 08 Head 186, Programme 01, Capital Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 09 Programme 02 – Development Activities – Recurrent Expenditure, Rs. 3,312,500,000; Capital Expenditure, Rs. 8,128,500,000.

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Hansard, Wednesday, 26 November 2025 ·No. 22993 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: Hon. Members. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 26 November 2025. No. 22993. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/22174