The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has requested that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, consider submitting the Mid-year Budget Review before July 27, 2023, since the House is scheduled to adjourn sine die on August 3, 2023.
The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, had previously indicated that the mid-year budget presentation will take place on July 27, with the parliament adjourning on August 9, 2023.
Nevertheless, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has stated that the House would not be able to meet after August 3 owing to other pressing obligations.
“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.”
“And so the last day we could get to convene and sit here could be only August 3, and we cannot go beyond that because even with the August 3, we would have been late to attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association [programme].”
