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    "id": 1438659,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning",
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    "content": "4. We are focusing on unlocking additional non-tax revenue potential by ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) through the services they offer to the public. Let me turn to improving the efficiency of public expenditure. We should ensure that our scarce resources are used efficiently and effectively. To move towards a balanced budget and further improve efficiency in public spending, the following bold actions and reforms have been outlined in the Financial Year 2024/2025: 1. Rationalisation of transfers to Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) by at least 30 per cent from the Financial Year 2023/2024 approved budget, in line with the overall austerity measures cutting across all MDAs. 2. Cutting spending on the following expenditure items: Foreign travel, rationalisation of all training expenses across the Government and restricting all training to within Government institutions, rationalising all allocations for purchases of motor vehicles and suspending purchases of furniture for one year, and suspending all refurbishment and partitioning of Government offices. 3. The expenditure control measures that include suspension of all new recruitment in the public sector for the next year, audit and cleanse all public payrolls, pensions and transfers to the vulnerable, eliminating ghost workers as well as enforcing payments of salary scales that are approved as recommended by Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) and consolidation of public procurement for common use items. 4. Minimising Government expenditure by leveraging technology, and this will entail the use of Wi-Fi and emails for efficient communication. 5. Reviewing the insurance schemes, especially looking at EduAfya, indigents, public service, police and prison commissions and independent offices under the Universal Health Coverage and align them to the Social Health Insurance Fund. The Social Health Insurance Fund will now be important because it will afford all Kenyans Universal Health Care with more benefits. 6. Suspending the policy of SAGAs investing surplus funds and enforcing the requirement of the Public Finance and Management Act, 2012 and the Public Finance Management Regulations, 2015 to surrender such funds to the Exchequer. 7. Review the regional development authorities to remove duplication of laws within those county governments and MDAs. Since the beginning of this Financial Year, the Government has also implemented initiatives to contain the growth of expenditures. First, the Government has taken measures to reduce spending to non-priority expenditures. Second, the public-private partnership framework not only targets commercially viable projects, but also considers the contingent liabilities that come under this framework. Third, we are reviewing the portfolio of externally funded projects to restructure and re-align them with the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda. All these initiatives will help lower the expenditures. With the policy measures and structural reforms highlighted above, we project total revenue collections, including Appropriations-in-Aid for the Financial Year 2024/2025 Budget to be Ksh3,343.2 billion, equivalent to 18.5 per cent of GDP. Of these, ordinary revenue is projected to be Ksh2,917.2 billion, equivalent to 16.2 per cent of GDP. Ministerial Appropriations-in-Aid is projected to be Ksh426 billion. Grants to this Budget are provided at Ksh51.8 billion, which is 0.3 per cent of GDP. Total expenditure in the Financial Year 2024/2025 Budget is projected at Ksh3,992 billion or 22.1 per cent of GDP. Of these, the recurrent expenditure will amount to Ksh2,840 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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