Government’s plan to allocate $2.4 billion to ministries and other key entities next financial year will be under the microscope from this morning.
Education, $474.1 million and health $294.2 million, are the ministries scheduled to get the biggest portion of the public purse as usual, followed again this year by the Prime Minister’s Office with $222.9 million.
Members of Cabinet and ministry officials will outline their various policies and programmes for the coming year while answering questions from Leader of the Opposition Ralph Thorne and other Members of Parliament in the Well of the Lower Chamber.
That is when debate on the Appropriation Bill, 2025, based on the 2025-2026 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, begins in the House of Assembly.
The Estimates, which is Government’s budget for the new fiscal year starting on April 1, has outlined overall expenditure of $5.1 billion.
The $2.4 billion to be debated in this year’s Appropriation Bill will “provide for the grant of a sum of money out of the Consolidated Fund and the appropriation of the same for the service of Barbados for the year ending 31, March, 2026”.
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