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    "id": 1056528,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rongo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Abuor",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Odalo Mak' Ojuando Abuor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Budget Policy Statement from the outset. I am also a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. First, as we all know the BPS is actually a ceiling. The most important aspect of the Budget Policy Statement is to set ceilings for the ministries to guide them when the Annual Estimates are being done so that they do not go beyond limits that have been set. We have realised that when the Annual Estimates are being done there is a big disconnect between what is proposed in the BPS and what is actually put in the Annual Estimates by the National Treasury. I would like to give an example. If you look at the Budget Policy Statement of 2020 and the Budget of Financial Year 2020/2021, you will find that globally there was a deviation of about Kshs51 billion from what was proposed in the Budget Policy Statement and what was eventually in the Annual Estimates. To give a further example, you will find that in the same year, what was proposed in the BPS for the Executive Office of the President was Kshs6.29 billion, but in the Annual Estimates we had Kshs36 billion. That one ministry alone had a deviation of Kshs30.2 billion. I fully support what was recommended in our Report, that the National Treasury should not go beyond the deficit that we have approved in the BPS of about Kshs930 billion. I would also like to make a comment as a Member of the Committee on Implementation. I would like to challenge my colleagues in that committee that they should start taking very seriously the recommendations done by the Budget and Appropriations Committee, as far as policy recommendations are concerned on issues to do with the budget. As a member of the Committee on Implementation, I would like to tell the Executive and the National Treasury that this time I do not think we are going to allow such deviations. In addition, we want to tell them it is no longer going to be business as usual. We are going to hold The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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