TOKYO. Dec 11: Japan s Parliament enacted a 5.7 trillion yen ($48.5 billion) supplementary budget Friday that will finance part of a record 24 trillion yen ($ 205 billion) of spending on projects to jump start the nation's moribund economy, reports AP.

The extra budget, the third of its kind for the current fiscal year, passed the upper house of Parliament easily with support from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and also the Liberal and New Komeito parties.

It will finance programmes designed to increase the flow of bank loans of businesses.