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"speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Question No.37 is in regards to the Financial Year 2022/2023. The total allocation for free primary education programme was Kshs12.001 billion. A total amount of Kshs9,288,570,185 has been disbursed in the same period. In Term Two, we had a disbursement done on 4th July of Kshs2,714,037,012 for 8,869,402 learners. We have given for Term One 2023, from (a) to (d). The report given is self-explanatory. A further disbursement of Kshs99,879,981 was made on 21st June, 2023 to cater for 469,018 learners. The figures are given there. It includes Junior Secondary Schools, where there has been two disbursements. The first disbursement was Kshs9,580,994,355, which was done on 13th April, 2023. The second disbursement was Kshs3,774,304,250, done on 20th June, 2023. The Ministry received a total budgetary allocation of Kshs64,421,865,698 for capitation. This is now for secondary schools. We were in primary and now in secondary. The money has been disbursed for terms two and three, as indicated in the figures up to (e). The entire amount has been disbursed. In view of part (b) of the Question, disbursement of capitation to schools is done every quarter of the financial year. For primary schools, the disbursement was initially based on manually collected data from schools. We now have a better system, as you all know. The information is captured in NEMIS, which gives us the specific figures in each county, sub-county and school before any disbursement is done, since it is based on specific numbers. Disbursement to secondary schools is fully automated through the NEMIS platform. It is the data obtained from the system that we make use of in order to disburse the funds to all our primary and secondary schools. We sometimes experience delays. Occasionally, we do not disburse funds on time because of these delays. However, we have had an engagement with the National Treasury and, therefore, going forward, we should change and start disbursing 50 per cent during Term One, 30 per cent in Term Two and then we will disburse the remainder of 20 per cent in Term Three. To respond to the last part of the Question, in terms of learning resources, the Ministry through the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD), provides textbooks to learners in public primary and secondary schools at the ration of 1:1 in all the learning areas. Therefore, we do not expect that parents will engage in buying of books because we have already provided the books out of the public funds that are given to us and the capitation given to learners. For instance, a figure of Kshs15,042 is given to learners in junior secondary schools. I gave a breakdown, where Kshs450 is for laboratory materials, Kshs1,000 for practical and Kshs2,550 for stationery. There is also some other amount which is supposed to cater for infrastructure."
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