Henry Rotich

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The Cabinet is considering a new Government transport policy that will standardise the institutional framework for fleet management and use of fuel cards across the Government in order to improve efficiency and cut cost. In addition, the policy will promote local industries by requiring that all Government vehicles be procured only from local assembly plants. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The Government has been leasing office space at higher than market rates resulting in huge costs to the Government. Beginning 1st July 2019, all procurement of office The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: accommodation by Government will be standardised with uniform cost leases and existing contracts will be renegotiated to ensure a standard rate. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We are on course towards providing an electronic end-to-end solution on all procurement processes. This will significantly enhance efficiency, transparency and accountability in procurement. It will further provide procurement audit trails, enhanced reporting and procurement analytics for better monitoring of the public procurement system, efficient and electronic archiving of procurement records and availability of online appeal and complaint mechanism, among others. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We are now in the final stage of issuing the new Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Regulations to fully operationalise the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015. Our assessment shows that significant savings can be achieved under the Framework Procurement and new institutional arrangement for Common User items that have been instituted in the new regulations. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The pension budget has increased by over three fold in the last 10 years from Kshs25 billion in FY 2008/09 to Kshs86 billion in FY 2018/19. This is unsustainable. Between February and May 2019, we conducted a payroll cleansing exercise for pensioners and dependants at the Huduma Centres across the country to authenticate the approximately 270,000 recipients of monthly pension paid by the Government. We are finalising the analysis and we expect cost savings. Pension management is also being improved with migration to IFMIS since May 2019. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: To address the challenge of the rising pensions’ budget, we have finalised a new National Pensions Policy and the Public Service Superannuation Scheme (PSSS). This scheme, which will be rolled out in the FY 2019/20, will ease the pension burden on the Exchequer and free resources for other critical national priorities while at the same time ensuring that the pension budget remains sustainable. This scheme will allow portability of pension benefits thus allowing free movement of staff into and out of Government. The Government will issue Public Investment Management Regulations, which will provide a framework for appraising and approving new ... view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: strategy; Resolution of tax disputes; and enhancing investigative capacity to support revenue collection. We expect the above administrative measures to significantly boost our revenue efforts. In the coming financial year, we expect revenues, including A-i-A of Kshs2.1 trillion. Expenditures and net lending are projected at Kshs2.8 trillion, leaving a fiscal deficit including grants of Kshs607.8 billion. In relation to the GDP, this deficit translates to 5.6 percent, a decline from 6.8 percent in FY 2018/19 and 7.4 percent for FY 2017/18. Hon. Speaker, the fiscal deficit of 5.6 percent of GDP in FY 2019/20 will be financed by net external ... view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: process, which we expect will fully take into account the provisions of Article 203 of the Constitution. In order to encourage the counties to optimise own source revenue collection, the National Treasury, in collaboration with the Council of Governors, will implement the National Policy to Support Enhancement of County Governments’ Own-Source Revenue. Further, as per the Presidential directive issued in February 2019, the National Treasury has established a multi- agency team to develop and implement an Integrated Revenue Management System for county governments. This initiative is aimed at eliminating the leakages and large costs currently incurred by counties in their ... view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The Government continues to stay focused on providing decent and affordable housing for our citizens. To that end, I have allocated Kshs10.5 billion to cater for social housing and construction of affordable housing units, including housing units for the police and Kenya prisons. Included also is Kshs2.3 billion for the Public Servants Housing Mortgage Scheme and Kshs5 billion for the National Housing Development Fund, as contributions by Government for its employees. With the recent establishment of the Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) by His Excellency the President, Kenyans will now access affordable mortgage loans for purposes of acquiring homes. The ... view