Appropriation (2022) Bill H.B. 15, 2021
The 2022 budget Bill appropriates $858.76 billion, with Primary and Secondary Education ($124.1bn) and Lands and Agriculture ($124.0bn) almost exactly level as the largest votes, and Health at $117.7bn.
This Bill authorises spending for the year ending 31 December 2022. The Consolidated Revenue Fund is charged with not more than $858,760,712,000.
The two largest votes are within a whisker of each other: Primary and Secondary Education at $124,069,971,000 and Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development at $124,049,100,000. Health and Child Care follows at $117,714,215,000.
The next tier is Finance and Economic Development at $64,573,566,000, Defence and War Veterans Affairs at $61,553,280,000 and Transport and Infrastructural Development at $60,802,472,000.
The money is to be applied to the services in the Schedule as specified in the Estimates of Expenditure. The Minister of Finance may move money between Votes where a service is reassigned to a different Ministry, and may direct transfers out of the Unallocated Reserve of Vote 5 to other Ministries, with anything not required returning to that reserve.
Taken with the 2021 Bill, the headline figure more than doubles year on year — from $368.5 billion to $858.8 billion — which is the inflation story of that period stated in budget terms.
What changed
- Consolidated Revenue Fund charged with up to $858,760,712,000 for the year ending 31 December 2022
- Primary and Secondary Education receives $124,069,971,000
- Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development receives $124,049,100,000
- Health and Child Care receives $117,714,215,000
- Finance and Economic Development receives $64,573,566,000 and Defence $61,553,280,000
- The Minister of Finance may transfer between Votes and release the Unallocated Reserve of Vote 5
Who this affects
- government ministries spending against the 2022 Votes
- suppliers and contractors to government
- teachers, health workers and agricultural programmes
- budget analysts and economists
- taxpayers
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.