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    "content": "(iv) Budget and Contingency Reserve - Kshs4.1 billion, making a total of Kshs31.2 billion. The amount of Kshs1.6 billion will cater for the Ministry’s operational and maintenance expenditure and it is allocated on various expenditure heads. Given the central nature of my Ministry, a number of policy interventions are budgeted under this vote. The grants and transfers are funds to be utilized by various state owned enterprises which help the Ministry meet its mandate, subscription payments to regional and international organizations and national reform initiatives as follows:- The salary and adjustments to the police force of Kshs2.5 billion. This has since been increased to Kshs5.1 billion through internal re-allocations towards implementation of phase one of the adjusted scheme for the police force. The other one is hire of security transport at Kshs400 million, Capacity building for devolved functions at Kshs300 million, security related arbitration cases at Kshs790 million, temporary reform committees at Kshs278 million, subscription to international organizations at Kshs222 million, acquisition of police security equipment at Kshs1.6 billion, Kenya Revenue Authority - Kshs8.9 billion, payment of duty at Kshs450 million, group personal accident cover at Kshs480 million, the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) at Kshs330 million, the Government clearing agency at Kshs330 million, the privatization commission at Kshs160 million, grants to Telkom (Kenya) Ltd at Kshs2.1 billion, grants to Kenya Railways at Kshs4.8 billion, the Public Private Partnership Secretariat at Kshs50 million and the Kenya Investment Authority - Kshs235 million. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Budget and Contingency reserve totaling Kshs4.1 billion comprises the following:- Kshs2 billion is for general contingencies that could not be foreseen during the budgetary process and Kshs2.1 billion for the drought contingency. I should also note that out of the total amount of Kshs31.2 billion provided under the Recurrent Vote of my Ministry, only Kshs1.6 billion for operations and maintenance and Kshs1.4 billion for personal emoluments, relates to the Ministry’s specific activities while the remaining is being held to fund wider Government operations. Details of the 2010/2011 Recurrent Budget under Vote R07 are highlighted in Appendix 2 (a) which is attached. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the Development Budget, the Ministry will require a net amount of Kshs20.9 billion to undertake the planned development activities earmarked for the 2010/2011 fiscal year as detailed hereunder: (i) GoK funded projects"
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