Almost a month ago, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft law on the State Budget for 2022 and sent it to the Verkhovna Rada. The draft budget was developed on the basis of the three-year budget declaration 2021-2024. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal called the budget balanced. The head of the budget committee Yuri Aristov told UNN how the preparations for the first reading are going.
«The working group of the budget committee has begun consideration of amendments to the bill 6000. On October 12 and 13 during the day the deputies will consider them in order and make recommendations to the committee. On Monday, the committee will consider amendments to the law and make recommendations to the Verkhovna Rada. In total, about 3,200 amendments were submitted, a significant part of them relate to subsidies and subventions to local budgets,» Aristov said.
Note that the presentation of the Budget-2022 was held under the slogan «Investment in people, country, future.» Ukrainians are offered a “development budget” instead of a “eating budget.”
The government has focused on social orientation and, in particular, plans to attract resources to ensure a high-quality level of medicine – an increase in doctors' salaries. , 6 times. Ensuring the payment of scholarships for 190 thousand students – additional budget expenditures of 1.1 billion hryvnias.
5.95% of GDP is planned to go to the defense and security sector. And almost UAH 10 billion will be allocated for infrastructure development in addition to the current year.
