Kadaga unveils new program of handling National Budget

By Francis Lubega

17^th March 2021

The Speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has released a tight schedule streamlining the procedures of handing the next financial year budget by different parliamentary committees.

In her communication to parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Kadaga informed Members of Parliament that in a bid to prepare for the transition of the 10^th to11^th parliament, committees will have to follow the new schedule which requires them to process and pass the budget within a month.

Kadaga says that the Minister of Finance on behalf of the president will be expected to lay the national budget in parliament by 1^st April to enable parliament’s committee on finance start processing the revenue bills which will be passed by parliament by14^th of next month.

Kadaga says that then sectoral committees will be required to lay their reports on the policy statements by 20^th April and where necessary these reports will directly be taken to the budget committee.

Kadaga says that from here the budget committee will report back to parliament with its report on 25^th April and they expect to pass the budget by the 29^th of April.