Govt expenses hit sh3 trillion in June – report
Similarly, spending on acquisition of non-financial assets totalled 1,412.09 billion shillings (1.412 trillion shillings), which was 38.9% higher than initially planned.
Uganda’s government expenses were attributed to increased fund releases to support domestic development spending, including rehabilitation of referral hospitals, acquisition of security-related equipment, and road construction and upgrades.
By Umar Kashaka
Journalists @New Vision
KAMPALA - Uganda’s government expenses in June 2025 amounted to 3,018.55 billion shillings (3.018 trillion shillings), posting a 101.1% performance against the target for the month.
Similarly, spending on acquisition of non-financial assets totalled 1,412.09 billion shillings (1.412 trillion shillings), which was 38.9% higher than initially planned.
This was attributed to increased fund releases to support domestic development spending, including rehabilitation of referral hospitals, acquisition of security-related equipment, and road construction and upgrades.
The finance ministry's performance of the economy report for June 2025 states that this (3.018 trillion shillings spending) was mainly on account of the supplementary expenditure issued in the second half of the financial year, which implied that most expenditure items had more funds to spend than what was in the initial approved budget.
Additionally, June being the final month of the financial year, most government ministries, departments and agencies were finalising implementation of their work plans.
Grants from central government to local governments, tertiary institutions, and referral hospitals amounted to 827.44 billion shillings, slightly below the planned target of 839.51 billion shillings.
“This was partly due to some spending under this category having been frontloaded in the previous months of quarter four to speed up service delivery,” the report says.