PKR lawmaker Nurul Izzah Anwar took a swipe at Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak for slashing education expenditure in 2016 Budget revision despite knowing those with lower education qualifications suffer from rising living costs.

"What is your rationale as the first thing you do is slash the education (expenditure) in your budget (revision)?" she asked.

Even more disturbing, she said, was that government statistics show 1.4 percent of bottom 40 percent households are degree holders, she said at a press conference at the Parliament lobby.