NCMP Ms Hazel Poa presents her budget speech in Parliament in response to DPM and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat’s Budget Speech on 16 Feb 2021. Mr Speaker, Sir The DPM has pointed out in his Budget Statement that Singapore can expect a budget deficit of $11 billion, representing about 2.2% of GDP. This can […]
Mr Speaker, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister has pointed out in his Budget Statement that Singapore can expect a Budget deficit of $11 billion, representing about 2.2% of GDP. This can be attributed to the COVID-19 Resilience Package. As it stands, why $11 billion, and not, say, $22 billion is the prudent Budget deficit figure, […]
Speech delivered at Government’s Strategy to Emerge Stronger From the COVID-19 Pandemic Mr Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to declare that I own an education company as I will be talking about education in the rest of my speech. The Deputy Prime Minister spoke extensively about the economic plans to address the […]