Budget Promises: Beyond Parliament - 2020 End Year Assessment

Abstract

Due to the absence of a budget speech in 2020, the public finance platform tracked 24 cabinet decisions—a combination of expenditure and regulatory policy decisions—made from January to June 2020. The decisions tracked were chosen based on the ability to identify an implementing agency and those that contained trackable outcomes. In 2019, the progress of budget proposals were hindered as a result of the Easter Sunday Attacks. Therefore, 8 proposals from the 2019 Budget Speech were chosen to assess their progress in 2020. The year end assessment measures the government’s openness on disclosing information on progress and the amount of progress made for the full year.