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## VI OTHER STATEMENTS 

## 21. Statement of Recurrent Expenditures – (Statement No.3) 

## a) Budgetary Provisions 

The sum appropriated from the Consolidated Fund to meet Ministerial expenditures for the financial year ended 31 March 2018 was P55 685 253 256, and funds warranted to the Accounting Officers during the year totalled P56 776 821 396. The actual expenditures for the year were P56 145 888 198, representing 99% of the warranted provisions. 

The expenditures on statutory commitments relating to Public Debt, Pensions, Gratuities and Compensations, Specified Officers and Miscellaneous totalled P6 662 702 039, compared to P8 507 077 548 (including Public Debt repayments from Public Debt Service Fund) last year and P7 705 781 530 the year before. 

## b) Supplementary Appropriation 

The following Ministries will require supplementary appropriations to cover expenditures incurred in excess of the sums already appropriated for the year ended 31 March 2018, in the amounts indicated:- 

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## c) Unauthorised Expenditures 

Section 118 of the Constitution provides that no payment shall be made from the Consolidated Fund without the authority of an Act of Parliament, or a resolution of the National Assembly on approval of supplementaries. In the year under review the Ministries indicated below were in breach of this provision to the extent shown:- 

