The budget session of the 11th Parliament was prorogued on Thursday (Jul 11).

This session in its 21 working days saw passing of national budget for fiscal 2019-20, supplementary budget for fiscal 2018-19 and seven bills.

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation order of the President of the budget session.

Prior to reading out the prorogation order, the Speaker thanked all lawmakers belonging to both treasury and opposition benches for reaching consensus in the House in upholding parliamentary democratic practices.

The session began on Jun 11 and Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Jun 13 placed the national budget of Tk 5.23 trillion for the fiscal 2019-20 in the House. As the finance minister fell sick at one stage of placing the budget, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina read out the rest of the budget speech on behalf of Kamal.

A total of 269 lawmakers took part in the budget discussions for 55 hours and 36 minutes on the budget for 2019-20.

The session got 235 notices under the Section 71 of the Rules of Procedure. Of those, 12 notices were accepted while five out of 12 were discussed in the House.

Besides, 75 notices were discussed for two minutes under the Section 71 (A) of the Rules of Procedure.

A total of 93 questions were received for the Prime Minister, of which she responded to 41 questions along with supplementary ones.

The session received a total of 2,274 questions for different ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers, and they replied to 1,658 questions, including supplementary ones.

Leader of the House and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Raushon Ershad, ministers, state ministers, and treasury and opposition benches members took part in the businesses of the House.

Earlier, Leader of the House and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Raushon Ershad gave their valedictory speeches.