MND Senior Parliamentary Secretary searches documents in Parliament. Comes up empty.

On Thursday, the Singapore Parliament was asked to pass a bill validating fees collected by four government agencies over decades — fees that had not been properly prescribed in law. When WP chief Pritam Singh asked for the basic figures before the vote — how many Singaporeans were affected, and what was the total amount collected — the Senior Parliamentary Secretary presenting the bill searched through his documents in the chamber and could not find them. His minister stepped in to explain why: the collections went back so far, the records may not exist. The PAP-majority Parliament voted to pass the bill anyway, with the Workers' Party dissenting. Read more at https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/05/...