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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Before I go to the Report of the Chair, I think I need to highlight what the Supplementary Budget that came from the National Treasury was before, because the Chair has just given the views of the various Committees and the recommendation, which I support. This House approved the national Budget in July 2013 - a Budget of Kshs1.65 trillion. That amount included Recurrent, Development, Consolidated, Contingency, County Allocation and Civil Servants Contributory Pension Fund. That total was coming to Kshs1.65 trillion. Hon. Speaker, on the cumulative basis, the revenue performance as of December 2013 from the National Treasury was below target by about Kshs28.6 billion, and that comprised of Kshs18.2 billion which was a shortfall on the Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in- A) and Kshs10.4 billion, which was a short fall in the ordinary revenue. That performance however, represents an overall growth of 20.8 per cent, when compared to the previous financial year cumulative collection for the same period. Why am I doing this? The National Treasury prepares the Supplementary and national Budget based on certain fiscal framework and Parliament, based on the Constitution; the powers that it derives from the Constitution, through the Budget and Appropriations Committee of Parliament as a whole, will look at it. That Committee has the powers to re-allocate and look at the Budget in totality. That is why I am giving the background before I come to what the Chair has raised. Hon. Speaker, I have thought about the cumulative basis in terms of revenue performance and in terms of the cumulative expenditure during the same period. It was also below target by about Kshs112.8 billion. This was mainly due to the slow start of development projects and programmess during that financial year. But because of the serious rationalization of Government Ministries and departments under the new administration, there was slow cumulative expenditure. Both domestic and externally funded development programmes were below target by about Kshs13.7 billion and Kshs90.3 billion, respectively - for both domestic and external funding. Hon. Speaker, during the half-year implementation of this Budget, the National Treasury experienced pressure from Ministries, departments, other agencies and county governments and by the time the National Treasury was finalizing the Supplementary Budget Estimate I, the request for additional funding by all those Ministries, departments, agencies and county governments was totaling to about Kshs356.8 billion, which comprised of kshs149.7 billion for Recurrent Expenditure and about Kshs207.2 for Development Expenditure. That was the situation when the Supplementary Estimates were being prepared. Hon. Speaker, considering the resource constraint and the need to control borrowing to sustain both levels in order to maintain a stable macro-economy - that is the intention of the National Treasury and the custodians of our economy - only those requests which were of high priority were considered by the National Treasury. There were many requests that came from Government Ministries, department and agencies. The gross national figure, after looking at high priority and important requests, was in 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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