NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF ZAMBIA

FIFTH SESSION OF THE TENTH ASSEMBLY

ORDER PAPER - THURSDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, 2010

AT 1430 HOURS

QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER

158    Mr Beene (Itezhi-tezhi) - to ask the Minister of Energy and Water Development:

(a)    when the Government will electrify the Masasabi Resettlement Scheme in Itezhi-tezhi Parliamentary Constituency;

(b)    how much money will be spent on the electrification project; and

(c)    what has caused the delay in extending electricity supply to the resettlement scheme.

159    Mr Kamondo (Mufumbwe) - to ask the Minister of Education when a boarding high school will be built in Mufumbwe Parliamentary Constituency and what the estimated cost is.

160    Mr Chisala (Chilubi) - to ask the Minister of Education:

(a)    why the University of Zambia management has not paid terminal benefits to its former employees from 2006 to-date; and

(b)    how much money the University owes its former employees.

QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

W7    Mr Imenda (Lukulu East) - to ask the Minister of Finance and National Planning:

(a)    what the poverty levels in the nine (9) provinces in the country have been from 2005 to 2010;

(b)    what plans the Government has to elevate the poorest provinces; and

(c)    which province is the least developed.

W8    Mr Imenda (Lukulu East) - to ask the Minister of Health:

(a)    what the total number of new Mother-To-Child Transmission (MTCT) cases was recorded in 2008 and 2009;

(b)    what the total number of mothers who tested for HIV from 2006 to 2009 was, year by year;

(c)    whether the HIV prevalence rate is on the increase in Zambia; and

(d)    what measures the Government has taken to reduce the rates.

W9    Mr Kambwili (Roan) - to ask the Minister of Finance and National Planning:

(a)    how much money the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) collected from January, 2009 to July, 2010 in the form of the following taxes:

(i)     Pay-as-you-earn;
(ii)     Withholding tax;
(iii)    Presumptive tax;
(iv)    Customs and excise duty;
(v)     Company tax;
(vi)    Variable profit tax; and
(vii)    Value added tax; and

(b)    from the above taxes, which ones did ZRA collect more or less than the projected levels.

ORDER OF THE DAY

1    Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure (Including Capital and Constitutional and Statutory Expenditure):
      Committee of Supply: Resumption of Debate:
      (Head 88/18: under consideration).

Heads 88/19, 88/20, 88/21, 88/22, 88/23, 88/24, 88/25, 88/26, 88/27, 88/28, 88/29, 88/30, 88/31, 88/32, 88/33, 31/01, 31/02, 31/03, 31/07, 17/01, 17/02, 17/03, 17/04, 17/05, 17/06, 17/07, 17/08, 17/09, 17/10, 17/11, 17/12, 17/13, 17/15, 17/18, 17/20, 17/23, 17/24, 17/25, 17/26, 17/27, 17/28, 17/30, 17/31, 17/32, 17/33, 17/35, 17/36, 17/37, 17/38, 17/39, 17/40, 17/41, 17/42, 17/43, 17/45, 17/47, 17/49, 17/50, 34/01, 80/01, 80/02, 80/03, 80/04, 80/05, 80/06, 80/08, 80/09, 80/10, 80/11, 80/12, 80/13, 80/14, 80/15, 80/16, 80/17, 80/18, 80/19, 80/20, 80/21, 80/22, 80/23, 80/24, 80/25, 80/26, 80/27, 80/28, 80/29, 80/30, 80/31, 80/32, 80/33, 80/34, 80/35, 80/36, 80/37, 80/38, 80/39, 80/40, 80/41, 80/42, 80/43 and 87/01 - for consideration.

KEY TO HEADS OF EXPENDITURE

Head 88    -    Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development
Head 31    -    Ministry of Justice
Head 17    -    Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Head 34    -    Human Rights Commission
Head 80    -    Ministry of Education
Head 87    -    Anti-Corruption Commission