10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

Hon. Members

21 November 2025 ·Debate: Appropriation Bill, 2026 – Committee Stage Debate: Twelfth Allotted Day

Public Finance
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Parliament agreed to an amendment to Head 149, Ministry of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development, increasing the capital allocation for Programme 02 by Rs. 1.5 billion to Rs. 7,243.7 million, using provisions under Budget Proposals Nos. 10 and 11. The recurrent allocation of Rs. 3,655.2 million for the same programme was also approved. Allocations for Head 303, Department of Textile Industries, were then agreed to, with Rs. 391 million for recurrent expenditure and Rs. 80.6 million for capital expenditure under Programme 02.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Aye.

¶ 02 Resolved:

¶ 03 "On page 28, line 11 be deleted and the following substituted therefor:

¶ 04 'Programme 02

¶ 05 Development Programme Rs. 3,655,200,000 Rs. 7,243,700,000'"

¶ 06 [The Hon. Sunil Handunnetti]

¶ 07 (The objective of this Amendment is to increase the Capital allocation of Head 149 - Ministry of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development - by Rs. 1,500,000,000, by incorporating provisions allocated under Budget Proposals Nos. 10 and 11.)

¶ 08 Question, "That the sum of Rs. 3,655,200,000, for Head 149, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule" put and agreed to.

¶ 09 Head 149, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 10 Question, "That the increased sum of Rs. 7,243,700,000, for Head 149, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule" put and agreed to.

¶ 11 Head 149, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 12 HEAD 303.- DEPARTMENT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRIES

¶ 13 Programme 02.- Development Activities - Recurrent Expenditure, Rs. 391,000,000

¶ 14 Question, "That the sum of Rs. 391,000,000, for Head 303, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule" put and agreed to.

¶ 15 Head 303, Programme 02, Recurrent Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

¶ 16 Programme 02.- Development Activities - Capital Expenditure, Rs. 80,600,000

¶ 17 Question, "That the sum of Rs. 80,600,000, for Head 303, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, be inserted in the Schedule" put and agreed to.

¶ 18 Head 303, Programme 02, Capital Expenditure, ordered to stand part of the Schedule.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Friday, 21 November 2025 ·No. 22936 ·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/6409

Cite as: Hon. Members. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 November 2025. No. 22936. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/6409