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    "id": 1562096,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562096/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
    },
    "content": "Parliament also sought information on the steps the Government is taking to ensure fairness in the criteria used to determine hardship areas. To promote fairness, equity and parity of treatment for employees in the public service, the Government constituted an Inter-agency Technical Committee, and I have given the profile, to address disparities in the designation of hardship areas. The KNBS provided parameters to guide the Inter-agency Technical Committee in reviewing the designated hardship areas. These parameters included food, water, transport and communication services, social services, climate and terrain, security, and poverty index. In addition, the KNBS provided the weighted criterion for determining hardship areas. As mentioned earlier, this is attached to the Statement. The Inter-agency Technical Committee prepared and submitted to the SRC a report on the categorisation of designated hardship areas and the payment of hardship allowance in the public service. The report proposed that designated hardship areas be categorised into two: moderate and extreme, with varying rates of hardship allowance. The SRC reviewed the rates of hardship allowance for public service in line with the proposed categorisation of the designated hardship areas, and advised the gazettement of the reviewed hardship areas before implementation."
}