Sri Lankan Parliament’s Vehicle Auction Remains Unfinished

A planned auction of 12 vehicles belonging to Sri Lanka’s Parliament remains incomplete, despite a committee approving the sale last year, according to the National Audit Office.

The five-member committee decided on May 28 of the previous year to auction the vehicles. The audit report, included in Parliament’s 2025 annual performance report, says the process had still not been completed by the time of its review.

The audit found other outstanding administrative and financial issues. Parliament was owed nearly 3.5 million rupees from officials who had died, retired, been suspended, dismissed or left their jobs. It also said authorities had not taken prompt action to recover remaining debts owed by suspended officials.

The report raised concerns about Parliament’s information and cybersecurity arrangements. Although responsibility for the institution’s information and cybersecurity policy was supposed to be assigned to the internal auditor, that assignment had not been made.

The National Audit Office also said internal audit programs linked to the cybersecurity policy had not been implemented. Parliament had not established an information-security function to provide strategic advice on related activities, the report said.

A further gap involved risk management. The audit office said Parliament had not created a risk-management committee responsible for overseeing risks linked to information and information-technology assets, with direct reporting to the head of the institution.