The gov­ern­ment is propos­ing to in­crease ex­pen­di­ture for this fis­cal year by an ad­di­tion­al $3.1 bil­lion, with sig­nif­i­cant in­creas­es al­lo­cat­ed to the min­istries of Health, Ed­u­ca­tion, Works and Trans­port, Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The 2025 Bud­get, which was pre­sent­ed on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2024, had a to­tal ex­pen­di­ture of $59.7 bil­lion with rev­enue of $54.2 bil­lion, re­sult­ing in a fis­cal deficit of $5.5 bil­lion.

This pro­posed in­crease will push ex­pen­di­ture to just un­der $63 bil­lion.

The gov­ern­ment has not yet pro­nounced on a re­vi­sion of rev­enue.

The pro­posed in­crease in ex­pen­di­ture was re­vealed dur­ing to­day’s Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee meet­ing in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, pri­or to Wednes­day’s Mid-year Bud­get Re­view.

The largest share of this in­crease will be di­rect­ed to the Min­istry of Health, to­talling $728,539,920.

That min­istry had re­ceived an al­lo­ca­tion of $7.5 bil­lion in the 2025 Bud­get.

The sec­ond largest in­crease of $489,470,000 is des­ig­nat­ed for the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, which has been al­lo­cat­ed $3.2 bil­lion in the Bud­get.

Fol­low­ing this, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion will see an in­crease of $455,106,000, hav­ing re­ceived $7.5 bil­lion in the Bud­get.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion will re­ceive an in­crease of $325,811,000, while the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port will get $325,208,000.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion will be al­lo­cat­ed an in­crease of $130,700,000, and the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter will re­ceive $128,403,880.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment will be grant­ed an in­crease of $122,114,000.