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The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 28 February 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question 2 - Companies Registered with Registrar of Companies (Q.426/2025)

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Hon. Ravi Karunanayake sought detailed information from the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development on the Registrar of Companies, including current and past officeholders from 2015 to 2024. He requested statistics on company incorporations to date and by selected years, average incorporation time, revenue earned from incorporations, the number of active companies, and whether the Registrar of Companies Department has been fully automated.

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¶ 01 Companies Incorporated by Department of the Registrar of Companies: Details

¶ 02 asked the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development: (a) Will he inform this House - (i) the name of the present Registrar of Companies; (ii) the names of individuals who have held the post of Registrar of Companies from 2015 to 2024; (iii) the total number of companies incorporated by the Department to date; (iv) the number of companies incorporated in each of the years 2010, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 up to date, separately; (v) the average time taken to incorporate a company; (vi) the total revenue earned by the Department from incorporation of companies as per (iii) above; (vii) the number of active companies currently operating as per (iii) above; and (viii) whether the Department has been fully automated? (b) If not, why?

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Hansard, Friday, 28 February 2025 ·No. 1741927369029372 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 28 February 2025. No. 1741927369029372. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26206