Parliament will continue to receive allocations from Treasury

Parliament will continue to receive budget allocations from the Treasury even if the proposed Parliamentary Services Bill is revived, according to de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan.

"From the aspect of financial allocations, even with the setting up of the Parliamentary Services Commission, the financial allocations, including emoluments and operation, will still come from the Treasury and the Finance Ministry as Parliament does not have financial resources of its own," he said in a written parliamentary reply.

The opposition has been pushing for the revival of the Parliamentary Services Bill, which was repealed in 1992, to make Parliament administratively and financially independent of the Executive.