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5 maltatoday | TUESDAY • 29 OCTOBER 2024 BUDGET2025 and what he will spend EXPENDITURE COMPILED BY KURT SANSONE Social policy €2.3 billion Health & Active Ageing €1.5 billion Education €1billion Finance €1.3 billion Environment & Energy €663.1 million Transport, infrastructure & public works €328.2 million Home Affairs & Employment €448.6 million Tourism & Public Cleansing €217.2 million Including - Retirement pensions: €833.8m • Widows' pensions: €200m • Children's allowance: €89.7m • Additional COLA: €48m • Out of home care programme: €6.2m • Public social partnerships: €13.6m Including - Wage bill: €472.9m • Medicines and surgical materials: €153m • Gozo General Hospital: €34.1m • Karin Grech Rehab Centre: €48m • Remote patient monitoring: €10.7m • Outsourcing of medical services to cut waiting lists: €14m Including - Wage bill education: €374.8m • Church schools contribution: €138m • Students' stipends: €42m • Private schools subsidy: €15m • Junior College: €11.5m • MCAST: €45m • University of Malta: €103m Including - Public debt servicing: €886.6m • Malta Tax and Customs Administration: €54.8m Including – Public transport subsidy: €55m • Tal-Linja card subsidy: €27.4m • Gozo Channel ferry subsidy: €14.7m • Fast ferry subsidy: €9.2m • Harbour ferry service subsidy: €600,000 • Grant for electric cars: €8m • Land transport initiatives: €5m • Maintenance of Ta' Qali National Park: €1.5m Including – AFM: €95.5m • Police: €117.3m • Civil Protection: €19.9m • Free child care: €54m • Jobsplus programmes: €16.5m • Payment to atypical workers: €7m • Correctional Services Agency: €31.1m Including – Stipends to ITS students: €900,000 • Valletta management plan: €1.3m • Malta Tourism Authority: €135m • Malta Film Commission: €3.8m • ITS: €8m Including – Domestic battery storage scheme: €6.2m • Energy support measures: €152m • Interconnect Malta: €6.3m • Project Green: €9m • ERA: €24.4m • Climate Action Authority: €3m • Charging pillars infrastructure: €6m • Waste to energy facility: €22m Clyde Caruana is estimating a total outlay, including capital expenditure, of €9 billion next year with four ministries – health, education, social policy and finance – hitting more than a billion euros each. Constitutional institutions Office of the President: €6 million Parliament: €15 million Ombudsman: €2 million National Audit Office: €6 million Standards Commissioner: €500,000 Other ministries Office of the Prime Minister: €209.7 million Heritage, arts & local councils: €175.9 million Foreign & European affairs: €79.7 million Agriculture, fisheries & animal rights: €144.4 million Social & affordable accommodation: €55.9 million Economy & strategic projects: €141.3 million Inclusion & voluntary organisations: €63.2 million Gozo & planning: €93.1 million Lands & implementation of electoral programme: €24.7 million Justice & construction reforms: €84.3 million