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| Tian - squeezed the written admission from Nazri |
The allocation amounts to 8.55 percent out of the RM212 billion Budget 2011.
The government also revealed that the total costs spent by the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister in official trips from 2008 to 2010.
In a written reply to Batu MP Chua Tian Chang, Datuk Seri Nazri said that official trips overseas made by the Prime Minister as well as the Deputy Prime Minister cost RM9.807 million this year alone, an increase of almost RM4 million from 2008. According to the written reply, the total costs of overseas trips in 2008 was RM5.597 million and RM6.041 million in 2009.
“This means that from 2008 and 2009 there was a 7.94 percent increase and from 2009 to 2010 there is a 62.32 per cent increase. This is frightening if you compare the figured to when Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was Prime Minister,” said Chua in a statement today.
Besides that, Nazri also stated that the government had spent RM4.3 billion for the Prime Minister’s Department in 2006 and the amount had increased to RM10.2 billion in 2009.
Chua claimed that the Prime Minister’s Department under Datuk Seri Najib Razak had received “unfair, exorbitant” allocations, saying that the amount had increased exponentially compared to the previous Abdullah administration.
“If the total expenditure by the PM’s Department amounted to RN4.3 billion in 2006 and RM10.2 billion in 2009, that means between 2006 and 2009 there was a 136 percent increase,” Chua said.
When asked to comment, Nazri confirmed the figures mentioned by Chua.
“Yes, that’s right. That’s the figures I gave Tian Chua. If that’s the figures and there is an increase, then it is so,” Nazri told The Malaysian Insider.
Earlier this year, Nazri revealed that the PM’s Department has more than 40,000 employees.
- Malaysian Insider
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