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    "content": "(x) National planning and development. Further, Standing Order 245 mandates the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning to introduce to the National Assembly the Finance Bill in the form submitted as a legislative proposal by the Cabinet Secretary, together with the report of the Committee on the Bill. Having highlighted the mandates of the two Committees, I now wish to observe as follows: First, you will recall that the Sessional Committee on Fiscal Analysis and Appropriation was established by a resolution of this House in 2005, which was by itself a historic resolve that eventually led to the establishment of the Budget Committee through the Fiscal Management Act of 2009 and finally the re-establishment of the Budget and Appropriations Committee by the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act of 2012. It is thus observed that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is the only Committee having additional functions through legislation. The Budget and Appropriations Committee has a wider mandate when it comes to budget matters as follows: (a) Providing general direction on budget matters: The Budget and Appropriations Committee as provided for in the PFM Act 2012 as well as the Standing Orders of National Assembly is required to provide recommendation on the overall macro-economic framework expected to guide the annual Budget as well as in the medium term. The Committee is expected to do this through a review of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the medium-term Debt Strategy Papers which are laid in this House annually. In doing so, the Committee enables the Assembly to set ceilings on the overall fiscal framework as well as ceilings on expenditure. Departmental Committees, on their part, review the BPS pertaining to their respective line Ministries and Departments, and submit their recommendations to the Budget and Appropriations Committee for review and consolidation."
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