{"id":1152,"date":"2026-05-14T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:50:06","slug":"civil-expenditure-stands-at-12-5-clarifies-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Civil expenditure stands at 12.5%, clarifies govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Finance clarified on Thursday that recent media reports on civil government expenditure presented aggregate figures without proper context, saying that the overall increase in expenditure was 12.5%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertain media reports regarding civil government expenditure have presented aggregate figures without necessary context, thereby creating a misleading impression about the nature and scale of federal spending,\u201d the Ministry of Finance said in a press release today.<\/p>\n<p>A significant portion of the reported increase relates to employee compensation adjustments announced in the budget and allocations for essential public health interventions, particularly the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI).<\/p>\n<p>When these factors are properly accounted for, the actual increase in operational non-employee expenditure remains minimal, clarified the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>It said that during the first nine months of FY2024-25, civil government expenditure stood at Rs559 billion, comprising Rs388 billion in employee-related expenditure and Rs171 billion in non-employee-related expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the corresponding period of FY2025-26, civil government expenditure amounted to Rs629 billion, including Rs427 billion in employee-related expenditure and Rs202 billion in non-employee-related expenditure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that, however, a detailed breakdown of the expenditure indicates that employee-related spending rose by around 10%, mainly due to salary and pay increases announced in the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, non-employee expenditure increased from Rs171 billion to Rs202 billion, marking a rise of Rs31 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, out of this Rs31 billion increase, an amount of Rs29 billion was allocated during the current fiscal year for the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, after adjusting for the EPI allocation, the actual increase in non-employee-related expenditure is only around Rs2 billion, added the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presentation of expenditure figures without highlighting these essential components and public welfare allocations does not provide a complete or accurate picture of government spending trends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance clarified on Thursday that recent media reports on civil government expenditure presented aggregate figures without proper context, saying that the overall increase in expenditure was 12.5%. \u201cCertain media reports regarding civil government expenditure have presented aggregate figures without necessary context, thereby creating a misleading impression about the nature and scale of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}