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    "id": 906321,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/906321/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Budget Estimates for the national Executive, the Judiciary and Parliament for the Financial Year 2019/2020, laid on the Table of this House on Tuesday, 4th June 2019, and pursuant to the provisions of Article 221 of the Constitution, Section 39 of the PFM Act, 2012 and Standing Orders 235 and 239, approves the issuance of a sum of Kshs1,928,865,282,319 from the Consolidate Fund to meet the expenditure during the year ending 30th June 2020 in respect of the votes contained in the First Schedule and further makes the policy resolutions contained in the Second Schedule in the Order Paper. It is good to point out to Members that both Schedules that have been attached have been amended to reflect changes that were not in the Schedules that were in the Report that we earlier tabled. Therefore, I want to ask the Members to be guided by the Schedules that are attached to the Supplementary Order Paper. The changes emanated from a slight oversight by the technical people. When they were putting together the Schedules, they missed one column in the summations. That is why there is a difference of almost Kshs8 billion between the Schedule that was in the Report and the Schedule that is now attached to the Supplementary Order Paper. The Departmental Committee on Trade and Cooperatives also had issues that were not reflected in the earlier Schedules in the Report. The 2019/2020 Budget was presented against a backdrop of what was seen to be an impressive economic growth performance for the year 2018. In the recently released Economic Survey for 2018, it is reported that the economy grew by 6.3 per cent. Agriculture value added grew by 6.6 per cent from 1.8 per cent in 2017. About 840,600 jobs were created, of which 83.6 per cent were in the informal sector. Inflation averaged 4.7 per cent and the current account deficit narrowed to 5.0 per cent in 2018 from 6.3 per cent in 2017. In the 2019/2020 Budget Estimates, it is expected that policies and programmes that will be implemented therein as contained in the Medium-Term Plan III will be operationalised mainly through the Big Four Agenda projects to accelerate economic growth, create opportunities for productive jobs, reduce poverty and income inequality and provide a better future for all Kenyans. The Committee, in review of these Budget Estimates, sought to establish the extent to which the BPS, the Vision 2030, the MTP III, the Big Four Agenda and other policy documents"
}