Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill
Ministry of FinanceBill Summary
Purpose: To provide supplementary funds to meet additional expenditure for the 2020/21 financial year, specifically for multi-Ministry programmes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Responses: Second Minister for Finance Ms Indranee Rajah explained that the bill was being withdrawn to allow for the introduction of a Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill, which would incorporate all sums approved by the Committee of Supply for pandemic-related expenditures.
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Transcripts
First Reading (26 March 2020)
"to make supplementary provision to meet additional expenditure for the financial year 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021",
President's recommendation signified: presented by the Second Minister for Finance (Ms Indranee Rajah); read the First time; to be read a Second time after the conclusion of proceedings on the Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure for FY2020/21.
Second Reading (7 April 2020)
Order for Second Reading read.
3.14 pm
The Second Minister for Finance (Ms Indranee Rajah): Mr Speaker, I beg to move, "That the order for the second reading of the Supplementary Supply Bill (FY 2020) be discharged and the Bill be withdrawn."
Sir, Parliament has today agreed to the resolutions of the Committee of Supply to provide the required funds, including the additional funds, necessary for the multi-Ministry programmes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore necessary to withdraw the Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill introduced on 26 March 2020, for the House to consider a Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill. The Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill containing all the sums so approved in the Committee of Supply will be introduced for Parliament’s approval once the Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill is withdrawn. Mr Speaker, I beg to move.
Question put, and agreed to.
Resolved,
That the Order for the Second Reading of the Bill be discharged and the Bill be withdrawn.