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    "id": 910311,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/910311/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Henry Rotich",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Henry Rotich",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Government will streamline the process of Pre-Verification of Conformity (PVOC), so that our business community stops suffering demurrage charges and other costs while clearing their goods at the point of entry. This has been caused by additional inspections of imports by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and a host of other agencies. Hon. Speaker, to address this challenge, it has been decided that once the PVOC has been done at the point of export and information relayed to our Customs and Standards teams, the same goods should not be subjected to further inspection unless there is prior intelligence on non-compliance. In addition, the logistics at the Port and at the Inland Container Depot will be streamlined to have the Customs and the essential Standards team only. Turning to expenditures, we must ensure that our scarce resources are used in the most efficient and effective manner. Accordingly, since the start of this financial year, the Government has implemented new initiatives to contain growth of expenditure. First, we adopted a zero-based budgeting process to weed out non-priority expenditures from the budget. Second, we have adopted a policy of “no new projects” to ensure that the Government completes ongoing projects. Third, we are reviewing the portfolio of externally funded projects with a view to restructuring and re-aligning them with the “Big Four” plan, and fourth, we are taking measures to reduce spending on some specific programmes which are not of high priority. All these initiatives have helped to lower our expenditures. Going forward, we will continue to take bold actions to contain our expenditures further in the next financial year in order to further reduce the deficit. This will entail the following."
}