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    "speaker_name": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "corresponding amounts can be sourced from individual Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). This is a very complicated exercise if my Ministry were to go to all ministries because there is not a distinction between new projects and carryovers. The law is clear that before you make payments for the next financial year, you need to clear the pending bills of the previous year. Therefore, MDAs proceed to pay the pending bills like any other amount. The reports that we get from ministries is on global figures of development and recurrent expenditure, without specifying how much was for previous financial year and subsequent year. I also want to add that every quarter, the Controller of Budget provides information to Parliament to indicate how ministries implement the budget. I guess that report should also be coming to the Senate. If I were to task and engage my officers on this exercise to go to various ministries, it would take months, if not a year. However, it is very possible. If the Senators are concerned with a specific Ministry, that information would easily be sourced. On Question No.060 (c), I have attached a list of all projects which were implemented in the Financial Year 2022/2023. You will find that under my submission at Appendix 1A and 1B. I am sure my team provided the appendices. Question No.060 (d) was whether I could provide details on all conditional grants by the national Government to the counties in the said financial year, including the project names and corresponding amounts, beneficiary counties and any funding partners involved. During the Financial Year 2022/2023, all additional allocations to the county government as specified in Section 5 (1) and (2) of the County Government Additional Allocations Act, 2022 were classified as conditional grants. The summary of the first schedule and second schedule has been provided. I have attached to this submission the County Government Additional Allocation Act, 2022 with detailed schedules of additional allocations to county governments in the said financial year, funding sources, names of programs, projects allocated and amounts per beneficiary counties. That is under Appendix 2. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether my additional information found its way to Parliament. I signed it this morning a little late. I wanted more details to be provided to the Senators on the project name, amount, beneficiary counties and financier. Some are financed by the Government of Kenya (GOK), while others by IDA Bank, Danida, World Bank and others. I can table this as additional information, if you permit me, just in case it did not find its way. It is addressed to the Clerk of the Senate and I have signed it."
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