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    "id": 910023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/910023/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this important Budget of 2019/2020. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning had a total of 14 sittings to look at the budgets for the State departments and commissions which come under us and these include; the National Treasury, the State Department for Planning, the State Department for Devolution under the Ministry of Devolution, the Controller of Budget, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and finally the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). The budgets were more or less the same as what was there in the last financial year. However, there were significant increments in SRC which I will state later. The National Treasury proposed a total of Kshs180 billion for the year 2019/2020 as compared to Kshs101 billion for the 2018/2019 Financial Year, but our recommendation was a reduction of Kshs4.3billion, which was allocated to some activities that in the opinion of the Committee were not urgent. It was, therefore, recommended that it be allocated to more productive areas. The State Department for Planning is carrying out a very important activity this year. As you are aware, there will be national census on 24th and 25th of August this year and this will take a sizeable amount of funding. Although we started funding in phases about three years ago, the State department was commended to be allocated Kshs53 billion compared to what was in the last financial year, that is, Kshs12.9 billion. You realise there is a significant shift. This is because of the National Government Development Constituencies Fund (NG-CDF) which in the last financial year was domiciled in the State Department for Devolution, but has since been returned to the State Department for Planning, hence the shift from Kshs12 billion to around Kshs52 billion."
}