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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, we all know that education is central to our country, and more so, to the socio-economic development of our nation. Various areas of spending which have been given priority in the education sector budget are, amongst others, provision of resources to support free primary and secondary education, as well as junior secondary schools. You need to know that the Government has been continuing this issue of capitation to schools since 2008. Successive governments have tried to increase that budget from Ksh8,000 in 2008 to Ksh10,000 by 2010. Now, we have a figure of almost Ksh22,000. For junior secondary schools, we have a budget of Ksh15,000 to enable the schools to run and buy essentials . I want to laud the Committee because as earlier presented, it had a deficit of almost Ksh10 billion but the Budget and Appropriations Committee agreed to our pleas and increased the amount of money allocated to this sector. The Government spends almost Ksh90 billion on basic education. The other area is school infrastructure improvement and support given to the CBC. This is an area where we agreed to work with the Ministry in terms of the NG-CDF. There will be allocations to constituencies in this regard. That way, Members can assist in the development of schools across the county. This has been agreed. Some of the infrastructure money will be taken directly to constituencies and Members of Parliament will play the oversight role. There is also the issue of funding of various universities, which is very important. I will be pointing out areas where the Committee identified that private universities had gained an undue advantage over public universities, leading us to reduce their expenditures. We have also appropriated resources to the HELB to support students in both universities and TVET institutions. For this particular case, we have increased funding to HELB from about Ksh15 billion to almost Ksh30 billion. This is to accommodate the new financing model. The previous model relied on grants that were not very specific. We are now talking about student-⁠centred fees in form of scholarships, loans, and parental or family contributions. In this case, the amount to the HELB and the UFB has been increased substantially. It is to take care of students 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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