Committee of Supply Reporting Progress

The Minister for Defence (Dr Ng Eng Hen): Mr Chairman, may I seek your consent to move that progress be reported now and leave be asked to sit again tomorrow?

The Chairman: I give my consent.

Resolved, "That progress be reported now and leave be asked to sit again tomorrow." [Dr Ng Eng Hen].

Thereupon Mr Speaker left the Chair of the Committee and took the Chair of the House.

Mr Speaker: Minister for Defence.

Dr Ng Eng Hen: I assume, Mr Speaker, you are asking for Parliament to be adjourned?

Mr Speaker: For the debate to be adjourned.

Dr Ng Eng Hen: Yes, Sir. Mr Speaker, I beg to report that the Committee of Supply has made progress on the Estimates of Expenditure for this year, and ask leave to sit again tomorrow.

Mr Speaker: So be it. Leader.