New Time Announced for the 2010 Budget Statement

Admission to the Speakers Gallery [for non-Parliamentarians] to hear the Budget Statement is by invitation or for ticket-holders. There are very few tickets left and these are being kept until businesses and financial institutions who requested them have been allocated their requirements. There may be a few seats left and those wish to attend may phone tomorrow morning to see if there are any tickets left. The person to phone is Major Mbewe, Director of Public Relations, Tel: 700181/2/3. There is a press gallery for accredited members of the press.