June Date For National Budget Announcement
The 2018-2019 National Budget is expected to be announced on June 22 this year.
This was revealed by the Acting Prime Minister and Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, in Parliament yesterday.
He said the confirmed date had been discussed by the Parliament Business Committee.
“It has been said in the Business Committee meeting that the budget will be delivered on the 22nd of June this year. We present the Budget as we have said,” Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said.
In relation to the 2018-2019 National Budget consultation, he said, it had been postponed because of the recent natural disasters.
Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said the consultations reached out to a wide number of people in the Fijian population, similar to the 2017/2018 consultations where a number of submissions were captured in the 2017/2018 National Budget.
He said direct submissions had been incorporated into the Budget and a similar process was expected for the 2018/2019 Budget provisions.
Edited by Epineri Vula
