MPs approve sh150b supplementary budget
May 11, 2006
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a supplementary budget of sh152.21b to cater for the remaining three months for the 2005/06 financial year.
By Apollo Mubiru
and Mariam Nalunkuuma
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a supplementary budget of sh152.21b to cater for the remaining three months for the 2005/06 financial year.
Finance minister Dr. Ezra Suruma on April 12 presented to Parliament the supplementary expenditure schedule number one seeking the approval of the supplementary budget.
Responding to the report of the finance committee on the supplementary schedule, finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana said the required money arose from the budget pressures during the first nine months of the 2005/06 financial year.
He said the money would cater for both recurrent and development expenditures for various ministries and departments.
He told Parliament that sh41.90b would go to the education sector, public administration sh40.16b, economic functions sh25.74b and the justice and law sector sh12.95b.
Rukutana said new districts created pressure on the budget because they came in after the budget was prepared.
“We could not allocate funds to the new districts which were not in place. Now that they are in place they can get their entitlements,†Rukutana said.
He said the supplementary funding also provides for funds to operationalise the condominium properties Act to process the related documents.
The supplementary budget will also address emergencies which were not included like buying drugs and sundries for hospitals, food for prisoners and resettlement of the internally displaced persons (IDPs), including paying fees for the children in the IDP camps.
In its report, the finance committee urged the Government to improve the budget process to minimise future supplementary requirements.
and Mariam Nalunkuuma
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a supplementary budget of sh152.21b to cater for the remaining three months for the 2005/06 financial year.
Finance minister Dr. Ezra Suruma on April 12 presented to Parliament the supplementary expenditure schedule number one seeking the approval of the supplementary budget.
Responding to the report of the finance committee on the supplementary schedule, finance state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana said the required money arose from the budget pressures during the first nine months of the 2005/06 financial year.
He said the money would cater for both recurrent and development expenditures for various ministries and departments.
He told Parliament that sh41.90b would go to the education sector, public administration sh40.16b, economic functions sh25.74b and the justice and law sector sh12.95b.
Rukutana said new districts created pressure on the budget because they came in after the budget was prepared.
“We could not allocate funds to the new districts which were not in place. Now that they are in place they can get their entitlements,†Rukutana said.
He said the supplementary funding also provides for funds to operationalise the condominium properties Act to process the related documents.
The supplementary budget will also address emergencies which were not included like buying drugs and sundries for hospitals, food for prisoners and resettlement of the internally displaced persons (IDPs), including paying fees for the children in the IDP camps.
In its report, the finance committee urged the Government to improve the budget process to minimise future supplementary requirements.