23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 23rd June 2021, and pursuant to the provisions of Article 223 of the Constitution of Kenya, Section 44 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, Public Finance Management Regulation 40 and Standing Order No.243: (i) approves a decrease of the total recurrent expenditure for Financial Year 2020/2021 by Ksh16,657,599,945 in respect of the votes as ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am now more audible. On the other hand, the major increments under the Recurrent Budget include the following: An increase of Kshs1.6 billion for exploration and distribution of oil and gas under the State Department of Petroleum; an increase of Kshs1.50 billion for the Teacher Resource Management Programme being undertaken by the Teachers Service Commission to make sure they undertake promotion and hire more teachers; an increase of Kshs1.46 billion for the Wildlife Conservation and Management Programme under the Department of Wildlife; and, an increase of Kshs1.03 billion to the State ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
With regard to the Development Budget, there will be a major reduction in regard to the following: A reduction of Kshs7.3 billion from Power Transmission and Distribution Programme under the Ministry of Energy; and, a reduction of Kshs3.78 billion from the Health Policy Standards and Regulations Programme under the Ministry of Health. Of course, there is also a reduction of Kshs2.72 billion from the Public Finance Management Programme under the National Treasury. There is also another reduction in the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation under Water Resources Management; that is Kshs2.097 billion. There is also a reduction of Kshs1.5 ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
There is Kshs6.47 billion in the preventive, promotive and reproductive health on account of acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines. They have indicated that they will be able to procure 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that should be here in the first quarter of the next financial year. There is also Kshs4.98 billion under the State Department for Devolution for the Kenya Devolution Support Programme which we had omitted in the division of revenue of the last financial year. So, it was just being regularised. There is Kshs4.09 billion to the Sports Programme under the State Department for Sports on account ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
votes. The pending bills are under different categories. There are historical pending bills. The other pending bills accrued in the current financial year. There are also some pending bills as a result of court awards. There are other unpaid taxes due to Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). The Committee is concerned that the lack of sufficient provision for the aforementioned bills in the Second Supplementary Budget may further worsen the sky rocketing amount of pending bills that we have witnessed in the past. This is a matter that we have prosecuted with the Ministries and Departments, and we have said that, ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for your indulgence. The attached Schedule forms the basis for the enactment of the Second Supplementary Appropriation Act for the Financial Year 2020/2021. As I call upon my good friend, Dr. Makali to second, I want to state that this year, unlike the previous years where new projects were introduced in the Supplementary II or III, the Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021 focuses more on offsetting pending bills. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the ...
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
With those many remarks, I want to call upon Dr. Makali to second. Thank you.
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to reply. I want to take this opportunity to thank….
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23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the Members who contributed to this Motion. I want to confirm to them that we have been keen. We have followed what they have proposed keenly.
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