The Hon. Ajith P. Perera
Ajith P. Perera asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media to provide annual allocations since 2016 for implementing rights under the Right to Information Act, No. 12 of 2016. He also sought details on future measures and legal reforms to strengthen the Act, and requested annual figures from 2017 onward on appeals received, resolved, and still pending before the Right to Information Commission.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Health and Mass Media:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House— (i) the amounts of money that have been allocated from the year 2016 to the present to ensure the rights granted to the citizens of Sri Lanka under the Right to Information Act, No. 12 of 2016, separately for each year; (ii) the steps that will be taken in future to strengthen the said Act; and (iii) the legal reforms that will be made in future to further strengthen the rights granted to the citizens of Sri Lanka by the said Act?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform this House— (i) the number of appeals received by the Right to Information Commission of Sri Lanka from the year 2017 to the present and the number of appeals resolved by the Commission in each year during that period, separately; and (ii) the number of appeals that have not been heard and concluded so far, out of the said number of appeals?
¶ 04 (c) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Ajith P. Perera. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 October 2025. No. 22641. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/8030