{"id":449631,"date":"2017-12-23T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/23\/parliament-approves-ghc67bn-appropriation-no-2-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-12-23T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:17:54","slug":"parliament-approves-ghc67bn-appropriation-no-2-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/23\/parliament-approves-ghc67bn-appropriation-no-2-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approves GHC67bn Appropriation (No.2) bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Saturday, 23 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>thebftonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505546308_254_62151230.295.jpg\" alt=\"7th Parliament1\" title=\"7th Parliament1\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Parliament of Ghana<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514045874_401_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Parliament has approved the Appropriation (No.2) Bill, 2017 that seeks legal backing from the legislature to enable a sum of money not exceeding GH?67billion to be issued from the Consolidated Fund and other funds during financial year commencing the 1st day of December 2018 for the purpose of meeting government expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report of the finance committee on the Appropriation Bill, the Committee observed that the Ministries, Departments and Agencies shall be permitted to retain and use an amount of 3billion of Internally Generated Funds (IGFs) during the 2018 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, out of the total amount of 67billion estimated in 2018, the Committee noted 37billion would constitute payments of Other Government Obligations whilst the rest would cover discretionary payments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Saturday, 23 December 2017 Source: thebftonline.com 2017-12-23 Parliament of Ghana Parliament has approved the Appropriation (No.2) Bill, 2017 that seeks legal backing from the legislature to enable a sum of money not exceeding GH?67billion to be issued from the Consolidated Fund and other funds during financial year commencing the 1st day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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