An es­ti­mat­ed $11 mil­lion has been al­lo­cat­ed in the 2009/2010 bud­get for re­con­struc­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter's res­i­dence in St Ann's.

The Draft Es­ti­mates of De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme for 2010 said that fig­ure was part of a $46.5 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter from the In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Fund.

The Gov­ern­ment pro­pos­es to spend $3 bil­lion from the 2010 bud­get on its de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme. That sum ex­cludes an ad­di­tion­al $3.9 bil­lion on de­vel­op­ment spend­ing which is to be fund­ed from the In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Fund.

The largest sin­gle amount from that fund, $700 mil­lion, has been al­lo­cat­ed to the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Hous­ing and the En­vi­ron­ment,while the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has re­ceived an al­lo­ca­tion of $613 mil­lion.

The Gov­ern­ment al­so pro­pos­es to spend $15.5 mil­lion from the In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Fund for the restora­tion of White­hall, which will be­come a Pro­to­col House for vis­it­ing heads of gov­ern­ment and state.

The sum of $20 mil­lion has been al­lo­cat­ed for restora­tion of Stollmey­er's Cas­tle, one of the Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en build­ings around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain.

Oth­er funds set aside in­clude:

? $3 mil­lion al­lo­cat­ed for the con­struc­tion of a new of­fice for the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al in south Trinidad.

? Es­tab­lish­ment of an of­fice for the AG in To­ba­go would cost $1 mil­lion.

n Con­struc­tion of a build­ing for the Crim­i­nal Law De­part­ment and oth­er di­vi­sions (North of­fice of the DPP)–$500,000

? Up­grade of fa­cil­i­ties and con­struc­tion of a new wing at the Sir Hugh Wood­ing Law School–$2 mil­lion.

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The PM's res­i­dence was ini­tial­ly es­ti­mat­ed to cost $40 mil­lion in 2007. It then rose to $148 mil­lion and re­vised in Sep­tem­ber 2008 to $175.3 mil­lion. It was fur­ther in­creased to $244 mil­lion this year.