Progress Singapore Party welcomes the move to introduce workplace fairness legislation to offer protection against discrimination and harassment. In my speech yesterday, I cover three main points: 1) It is important to have equal maternity and paternity leave by default with flexibility for couples to reallocate between themselves and give incentives to employers to provide […]
MOF Speech I echo the call by WP to exempt basic essentials from GST. To prevent the rich from also benefitting from such exemptions, we can set a price threshold. NTUC Fairprice housebrand rice sells for $1.40 per kg. We can therefore exempt rice that sells for under $2 per kg from GST. This way […]
Mr Speaker, Sir, There are many measures announced in this year’s Budget Statement that we welcome. We welcome the further tightening of foreign manpower, the increased focus on redistribution through the introduction of higher income tax rates at the top tiers and higher taxes on property and luxury cars. We think that more can be […]
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Feb
Feb
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for Health what is the projected annual healthcare spending for the next decade.
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Feb
Feb
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for Trade and Industry what is the projected annual Government expenditure on subsidy for hosting the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix from this year to 2028.
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Feb
Feb
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for Social and Family Development (a) what is the reason for the difference between the disbursed amount of $151.42 million found on page 12 of the ComCare Fund Annual Report FY2019 and that of $68.8 million listed in the Financial Statement found on page 13 of the Annual Report; and (b) […]
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Jan
Jan
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for Manpower what is the number of Singapore citizens drawing a monthly CPF payout of (i) below $500 (ii) $500 to under $1,000 (iii) $1,000 to under $1,500 (iv) $1,500 to under $2,000 and (v) $2,000 and above, respectively.
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Jan
Jan
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for National Development for each year in the past three years, how many first-time HDB home buyers bought (i) new flats and (ii) resale flats, respectively.
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Jan
Jan
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for National Development (a) for each year in the past three years, how many HDB housing loan applications have been unsuccessful; (b) what are the reasons they have been unsuccessful; and (c) what is the breakdown of the number of these unsuccessful applications by the different reasons.
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Jan
Jan
Ms Hazel Poa asked the Minister for National Development for each year in the past three years, what is the lower quartile, median and upper quartile prices of resale HDB flats before and after subsidies, with a breakdown by first-time and repeat buyers.