The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 27 November 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question: Total Foreign and Domestic Debt with Supplementaries (Q.315/2024 (2))

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Ravi Karunanayake tabled Question 315/2024 to the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development seeking detailed data on Sri Lanka’s total public debt as at 31 December 2024 and annually from 2020/2021 to 2024. He requested separate figures in rupees and US dollars, breakdowns between domestic and foreign debt, and further categorisation of foreign debt into multilateral, bilateral, international sovereign and commercial debt, including institution-wise multilateral debt and annual bilateral debt figures.

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¶ 01 Yes.

¶ 02 Question 315/2024

¶ 03 Total Foreign and Domestic Debt from 2020-2024: Details

¶ 04 To ask the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development:

¶ 05 (a) Will he inform this House, of Sri Lanka, the: (i) total debt as at 31.12.2024 in Sri Lanka Rupees and United States Dollar, separately; (ii) total debt from 2021 to 2024, in each year separately; (iii) breakdown of the total debt as at 31.12.2024, as per domestic debt and foreign debt separately; (iv) composition of foreign debt as at 31.12.2024 categorized as multilateral debt, bilateral debt, international sovereign debt and commercial debt; (v) foreign debt from 2020 to 2024, separately; (vi) multilateral debt in total, as at 31.12.2024; (vii) multilateral debt from 2020 to 2024, separately as per the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Allied Irish Bank; (viii) total bilateral debt, as at 31.12.2024; and (ix) total bilateral debt from 2020 to 2024, in each year separately? (b) If not, why?

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Source: Hansard, Thursday, 27 November 2025 ·No. 23013 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 November 2025. No. 23013. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5261