58.  Mr Nkombo (Mazabuka Central)   -   to ask the Minister of Health:

 

(a) why the Government has started using insecticides containing Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT), a banned substance, in the Malaria Control Programme;

 

(b) what urgent measures are being taken to stop the use of insecticides containing DDT; and

 

(c) why other insecticides, which are not harmful to humans and livestock, were not considered for use in place of  the ones containing DDT.

 

 

 

 

Adopt Report of the Committee on National Economy, Trade and Labour Matters: That this House do adopt the Report of the Committee on National Economy, Trade and Labour Matters on the Proposal to Ratify the Agreement Establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area among the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community, for the Fifth Session of the Twelfth National Assembly, laid on the Table of the House on 29th October, 2020. 

 

 

 

1. The Excess Expenditure Appropriation (2020) Bill                    (N.A.B.10/2020)

                                                                                                        Third Reading

 

2. Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure (Including Capital and Constitutional and Statutory Expenditure): Committee of Supply - Resumption of Committee work: (Head 52: under consideration) (The Minister of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection)

 

Heads 62, 54, 64, 65 and 80, - for consideration.

 

 

 

Head 52 - Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection

 

Head 62 - Ministry of Energy

 

Head 54 - Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Development

 

Head 64 - Ministry of Works and Supply

 

Head 65 - Ministry of Higher Education

 

Head 80 - Ministry of General Education