Finance Minister Presents 2021 Budget To Parliament On November 17th

Majority Leader, Osei-Kyei-Mensah- Bonsu, has announced that the Finance Minister will present the 2022 Budget before Parliament on November 17th, 2021.

The Majority Leader who is also Leader of Government Business in Parliament made this known while presenting the business of the House for the third sitting of the Eight Parliament on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.

After the presentation, Parliament will go on recess on December 17, 2021, for the Christmas and New Year break. Consequently, the Suame MP described the third sitting as a “budget sitting.”

”Mr. Speaker, this meeting, is a budget meeting. The budget is going to be introduced, on November 17, 2021, and exactly one month after the introduction of the budget, Parliament will proceed on recess December 17, 2021. What it means is that we have very little time at our disposal,” he said.

Kyei Mensah Bonsu said some 58 bills have been advertised for consideration before the House and that the House would not have enough time to consider all the bills before the budget presentation.

He, therefore, urged the Ministers and various committees to be very proactive in the advertised bills and begin to work towards them so when they present it before the House, MPs can deliberate on them expeditiously.

The Majority Leader explained that under normal circumstances, Parliament ought to spend at least eight weeks debating the budget, but that they don’t have the luxury of time for that since they would be limited to four weeks.

Kyei Mensah Bonsu, therefore, advised the various committees to work with the various ministries on their allocations for the budget diligently so it would not be difficult for the House to approve the budget.