Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has charged the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to consider presenting the mid-year budget review before July 27, 2023.
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu had earlier announced that the mid-year budget presentation was scheduled for July 27 with the house expected to adjourn on August 9, 2023.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin said the House cannot sit beyond August 3 due to some other urgent commitments.
“The House has to rise before August 9 because there are commitments that the House cannot ignore which we will have to be part of. Some of these commitments are international and some are domestic, so we have to be on recess before that. So this is a notice to the Minister of Finance to try as much as possible to submit the mid-year Budget and Supplementary Budget Review earlier than being perceived because we have to work on it and approve it before August 10” he said.
He added that, the last day they can get to talk about it will only be August 3, and they cannot go beyond that because even with the August 3, they would have been late to attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (programme).
