Covid-19: DPM Heng to deliver ministerial statement on third round of support measures at 2pm on April 6

SINGAPORE — Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat will deliver a ministerial statement on the Government’s additional support measures for workers, businesses, households and vulnerable groups at 2pm on Monday (April 6) in Parliament.

This is to help people better cope with the upcoming elevated set of safe distancing measures.

In a media statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said that the full ministerial statement will be published on the Singapore Budget website after it has been delivered. There will also be live television and radio coverage of the ministerial statement.

MOF said that Parliament will then resume debate on the ministerial statement Mr Heng had delivered on March 26.

Earlier on Sunday, Mr Heng — who is also the Finance Minister — said on Facebook that the third set of measures will be called the “Solidarity Budget”. This comes after the “Unity Budget” unveiled on Feb 18 and the “Resilience Budget” on March 26.

Mr Heng had called on Singaporeans to "remain steadfast in the face of crisis", and stand in solidarity with one another.

"I am therefore naming this set of measures to tide us through the 'circuit breaker' the Solidarity Budget," he said. "Unity, resilience, solidarity — these values will come to define who we are as a people."