By Justine Irish DP. Tabile, Senior Reporter
The Department of Budget and Management plans to further reduce unprogrammed appropriations in future national budgets as it seeks to tighten spending discipline, although eliminating the allocation will depend on the government’s fiscal space and project pipeline.
Acting Budget Secretary Kim Robert C. de Leon said the government could eventually bring unprogrammed appropriations to 1% of total spending or eliminate them altogether if sufficient fiscal room allows priority projects to be funded through programmed budgets.
“We’re working towards a more disciplined budget,” told reporters at the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines Forum on Friday. “The lower, the better, but it depends on the actual purpose or nature of the project to be funded.”
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