Debated in Parliament on 2 Mar 2026.
Ms He Ting Ru asked the Minister for Manpower in each of the last five years (a) how much public funding was disbursed to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), broken down into the various different grants or funding programmes; (b) whether public funds were granted for NTUC's operational and development expenditure; and (c) whether any public funds were given for the purposes of NTUC's staffing or executive remuneration, and if so, how much.
The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), as the key body leading Singapore's labour movement, delivers various programmes to upskill and uplift workers. NTUC is one of the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM's) service delivery partners to whom we would provide funding, which could be either in part or in full, for programmes which are aligned with our policy objectives. These programmes and initiatives include employment facilitation services, Career Conversion Programmes, the administration of Company Training Committees (CTC), the Migrant Workers' Centre and the NTUC-U Care Centre, which provides lower-wage workers with guidance on work-related issues and opportunities for earning a better living. For example, the Government has set aside a total of $300 million for NTUC's CTC Grant to support companies in enterprise and workforce transformation. As is common for such programme partnerships, a portion of the grants might include funding for our partners' manpower to support the programmes.
MOM does not track consolidated funding to NTUC across the whole-of-Government. MOM does not provide dedicated funding for NTUC's general staffing or executive remuneration.
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