2025 Budget Debate

Follow along as Workers’ Party Members of Parliament scrutinise the Government’s 2025 Budget

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Leader of the Opposition‘s Budget 2025 Speech

The Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh (Aljunied) spoke about Singapore’s fiscal situation and the government’s fiscal marksmanship in his speech, amongst other issues, on the first day of the Budget debate.
26
Feb 2025
Pritam Singh

Budget debate speech by He TIng Ru: Revisiting a development dashboard

In her 2025 Budget Speech, MP He Ting Ru (Sengkang) revisited the idea of using a developmental dashboard to better measure our social outcomes. Arguing that we have to approach our policies from a position of strength and abundance, rather than fear and scarcity, she also discussed how to apply the dashboard to areas such as inequality, participation in society, mental health and our readiness for the future, and to use it to measure outcomes, not just inputs. She hopes that with active input and participation from Singaporeans through fora such as Citizen’s Assemblies, the dashboard can be a channel through which we can shape our nation as we look to the next lap.
26
Feb 2025
He Ting Ru

Budget debate speech by Jamus Lim: Time for Wages to Rise

Since the pandemic, wages have fallen behind both increases in inflation as well as productivity. It is high time for salaries to rise, and there is more the government can do to expedite this adjustment, including ensuring that NWC guidelines are more widely adopted, equalising the employer share of CPF, and instituting a statutory minimum wage. Restoring the real purchasing power of wages is a sure-fire way to help working Singaporeans cope with sky-high costs of living.
26
Feb 2025
Jamus Lim

Budget debate speech by Dennis Tan

WP MP Dennis Tan (Hougang) spoke on Singapore’s green transition, improved support for adults with disabilities and enhancements to our healthcare system in his speech on the first day of the Budget debate.
26
Feb 2025
Dennis Tan Lip Fong

Written answers to parliamentary questions (26 February 2025)

Written answers provided to oral and written parliamentary questions submitted by Workers’ Party Members of Parliament
26
Feb 2025

Policy perspectives: our 2020 manifesto

This is our vision for a Singapore for all: where Singaporeans are enabled to achieve their dreams, where we provide  dignified jobs for our workers, where we tackle the cost of living, and where robust political, governance, and defence institutions protect our security.