12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
allocation of funds from the Education Bursary Scheme to other projects like expansion of additional school infrastructure, mostly construction of classrooms and purchase of desks in preparation for re-opening of schools. Members also sought to know the fate of the un-gazetted constituencies, the status of pending delayed release of funds and even additional funding to deal with the COVID-19 situation in our schools in order to comply with the protocols and guidelines from the Ministry of Health. I would like to inform the House that the NG-CDF Board has received enquiries from several constituencies on the possibility of re-allocating the ...
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12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Regarding the status of gazettement of NG-CDF Committees from some of the constituencies, the Board has to date received lists of proposed members of the constituencies The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
committees from 287 constituencies. I do not need to mention all of them. About 181 were approved by the National Assembly on 14th and have been gazetted with effect from April 2020 vide Gazette Notice No.3737 contained in the published list of 29th. This will run up to 2022. There are 90 constituencies that have been submitted to the Government Printer for publication. Ten have been submitted to the National Assembly which the Leader of the Majority Party tabled a few days ago, nine are currently being analysed by the Board for compliance with the NG-CDF Act. Regulations and gaps ...
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will read a Statement on fund allocation to constituencies for the Financial Year 2020/2021 and the status of disbursement for the Financial Year 2019/2020. I wish to inform the House that the allocation of funds to constituencies for the Financial Year 2020/2021 is Kshs41,714,800,000. This means that the fund allocation is 2.72 per cent of the National Government share of revenue and therefore, meets the criteria of a minimum of 2.5% of the National Government share of revenue.
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Section 34 of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Act states that the amount be divided equally among all constituencies subject to the provisions of Sections 8(1) and 23(1) of the Act. Following this criteria, each Constituency will then receive a total of Kshs137,088,879.31 inclusive of emergency reserve totalling to Kshs7,192,206.90 for each constituency.
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Further, Section 23(1) of the Act states that the expenditure for running the Board and related purposes shall be set aside at the beginning of the financial year and not more than 5 per cent of the total allocation to the fund in the financial year may be used for this purpose, the annual budget of which shall be approved by the Cabinet Secretary with the concurrence of the National Assembly’s NG-CDF Committee. Therefore, the allocation to the Board for the Financial Year 2020/2021 amounts to Kshs.1,959,025,000 which is approximately 4.69 per cent of the total allocation to the Fund.
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I now go to the status of disbursement of funds to constituencies as at 4th August 2020. May I also inform the House on the status of funds disbursement of funds as at 4th August 2020. This is important for Members. There have been a lot of questions. The total receipts into the Fund in the Year 2019/2020 was Ksh28 billion that has been disbursed to the constituencies. Thirteen constituencies have received full allocation while 271 constituencies have received an allocation of between 50 and 99 per cent. Six constituencies have received an allocation between 36 and ...
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
and 2014/2015 Financial Years, which has not been received to date. Therefore, the total arrears owed to the Fund by the National Treasury is Ksh18,691,550,000.
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, due to the huge amount of arrears owed to the Fund by the National Treasury, the Committee in its last sitting — which took place yesterday with your approval — resolved to invite the Cabinet Secretary and the National Treasury to discuss on the way forward in relation to the mechanisms to release the pending arrears to the Fund. This morning, I want to confirm that I spoke to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and National Treasury and he has confirmed another meeting, which we are going to hold before the formal one, next week.
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5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly:
I have annexed details of the allocation for all the financial years to this Statement because it is a long list of all the constituencies, which have not received the Fund. Some constituencies are still owed funds from 2011/2012 and 2013/2014 Financial Years for various reasons. Some of the information I get is that there are certain queries and clarifications that have been sought from the NG-CDF committees, which require to be submitted to the Board and then the funds will be received. So, I want to urge Members to take interest and look at any questions, which have been ...
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