Bill Watch 58/2019 In Parliament This Week – Bills and 2020 National Budget Presentation 11 November 2019 Framework Agreement of the International Solar Alliance This agreement was signed on behalf of Zimbabwe on 17th July 2018. Motions Two partly-debated motions are items 4 and 5 on the Order Paper: • the vote of thanks for the President’s speech at the opening of this session; • the anti-sanctions motion, debate on which terminated abruptly in great disorder on Thursday 24th October, just as Hon Biti entered the chamber to make his contribution [see Bill Watch 57 of 7th November [link]]. Take note motions on reports Items 6 to 15 on the Order Paper are motions for the House to take note of various reports including include the report of the Public Accounts Committee [PAC] on Compliance Issues for the Reserve Bank, and a report on the Benchmarking Visit to the Parliament of Zambia by a delegation of some members of the PAC. These reports will be posted on the Veritas website when they become available, which will be once the take note motions have been moved. Question Time This is due to go ahead on Wednesday, Questions Without Notice being allotted the first hour and Questions With Notice the next hour. Hon Madzimure has 7 questions with notice listed, including asking the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare for details of distribution of food to the elderly in his Kabuzuma constituency and several for the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing seeking information on a large number of allegedly irregular land allocations and transfers in the constituency. Hon S. Chamisa has 5 questions listed, including some for the same Minister seeking information on progress with issuing of title deeds to Mbare residents and construction of a secondary school in Mbare, and the official attitude towards returning vehicle licensing functions to local authorities to enable them to maintain roads. Coming up in the Senate The Senate will continue debating the motion for a vote of thanks to the President for his address opening this Parliamentary session and the anti-sanctions motion. Both debates started during the first working sittings of the Houses on 22nd, 23rd and 24th October. As already noted above, the Senate’s usual Thursday afternoon Question Time will not take place. Instead, Senators will remain in their own chamber to listen by media link to the 2020 Annual Budget presentation in the National Assembly. Veritas makes every effort to ensure reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. If you want to contact Veritas, have any questions or wish to subscribe or unsubscribe please email veritas@mango.zw If you are looking for legislation please look for it on www.veritaszim.net Follow us on (+263 71 893 3633) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.