The National Assembly Standing Committee has resolved to allocate the 2025 operating budget for National Assembly delegations (operating expenses of state agencies, parties, and organizations - non-autonomous expenses) of more than 189 billion VND.
The Standing Committee of the National Assembly also assigned the Chief of the National Assembly Office to issue a Decision on assigning the 2025 budget estimates of the National Assembly Delegations to the Office of the National Assembly Delegations and the People's Councils of the provinces and centrally run cities.
Review and decide on budget adjustments for the National Assembly Delegation for tasks that have not been budgeted and additional and adjusted assigned tasks in 2025.
At the same time, assign the National Assembly Office to decide on budget estimates, review and ensure the accuracy of information and data in the plan to allocate budget estimates for the activities of National Assembly delegations in 2025.
In addition, on behalf of the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man also signed and issued a Resolution on targeted supplementation from the 2024 central budget for localities.
Accordingly, the Resolution provides localities with more than VND 5,834 billion to implement social security policies for the years 2023 - 2024 and support payment of benefits for the number of additional teachers for the school year 2022 - 2023 and school year 2023 - 2024 in accordance with the content and data in the Government's submission.
The National Assembly Standing Committee also agreed to supplement the central budget with a target of 600 billion VND for localities to implement the project to strengthen management of land originating from state-owned farms and forestry farms for 19 localities according to the data in the Government's previous report.
The Resolution requires the Government to be responsible for the legal basis, accuracy of data, spending regime and conditions for supplementing the budget estimate and assigning the budget estimate in accordance with the provisions of law.
The Government is assigned to implement promptly, effectively, and for the right purpose, without loss, waste, or negativity; and report to the National Assembly the implementation results at the 9th Session.
The Resolution requires the Government to direct ministries, branches and localities to learn from experience in building budget estimates and minimize unallocated budgeted expenses from the beginning of the year.
During the operation process, the Government needs to give strong direction to promptly hand over the budget estimates of unallocated items, avoid delays, prolongation, waste, inefficiency of state budget resources and the situation of handing over the budget estimates at the end of the year without being able to use them in time, and must carry over the budget sources to the following year, especially the budget sources related to social security and human policies.
