Budget 2025/2026: How MPs Have Proposed to Allocate Ksh4.2 Trillion

The National Assembly's Budget and Appropriations Committee chairperson, Samuel Atandi, tabled the revised 2025/2026 Budget estimates in Parliament following weeks of review.

In the report tabled on Thursday, June 5, the budget for the 2025/2026 Financial Year is set to hit Ksh4.239 trillion.

Among the three arms of government, the Executive was allocated Ksh2.497.55 trillion, while Parliament was allocated Ksh42.5 billion.

The Judiciary, led by Chief Justice Martha Koome, was allocated Ksh26.7 billion.

Key Update: Treasury CS John Mbadi is expected to read the budget statement on Thursday, June 12.

Below are the detailed allocations that have been made to the ministries and government programmes.

Education

The education sector will receive the largest share of the budget, at Ksh701.1 billion.

This allocation will support various institutions such as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and also finance the schools in Kenya.

Some of the major allocations in education are;

• Ksh28.9 billion – Junior Secondary Schools (JSS).
• Ksh51.8 billion – Secondary education.
• Ksh5.9 billion – Examination Fees.
• Ksh17.2 billion – University Funding Model.
• Ksh41.5 billion – HELB.
• Ksh7.2 billion – Recruitment of JSS intern teachers.

Infrastructure and Energy

This is the sector with the second highest allocation, totaling Ksh500.7 billion. Of this, Ksh195 billion will go towards the construction of new roads and the maintenance of new roads.

Ksh119 billion was allocated to the housing and urban development projects. This includes the affordable housing programme that will receive Ksh95 billion.

• Ksh13.4 billion – Kenya Urban Programme (KenUP).
• Ksh7.197 billion – Informal Settlement Upgrading (Phase II).
• Ksh16.5 billion – Social and Physical Infrastructure.
•  Ksh3.5 billion – Police Housing.

In the energy sector, some of the key allocations include;

• Ksh1.1 billion – Last Mile Electricity Connectivity (Phase III).
• Ksh4.35 billion – Constituency electrification.
• Ksh50 billion – Electricity for public facilities

Health

• Ksh4.6 billion – Vaccine programme.
• Ksh1 billion – Cancer Centre at Kisii Level 5 Hospital
• Ksh8 billion – Critical Illness Fund.
• Ksh13 billion – Primary Healthcare.
• Ksh4 billion – Intern doctors,
• Ksh3.2 billion – Community Health Promoters (CHPs).
• Ksh6.1 billion – Conversion of UHC Workers to permanent and pensionable.

Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector

The National Police Service will receive Ksh125 billion while the Correctional Services gets an allocation of Ksh38 billion.

Allocation to the Internal Security and National Administration was budgeted for at Ksh35 billion, as Immigration and Citizen Services get Ksh20.3 billion.

The Ministry of Defence, which includes the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), is to get Ksh200 billion, as the National Intelligence Service (NIS) received Ksh51 billion.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) will be given Ksh9.6 billion.

Key allocations for Agriculture

• Ksh8 billion – Fertilizer subsidy programme.
• Ksh8 billion – Sugar reforms.
• Ksh2 billion – Coffee Cherry Fund.
• Ksh2 billion – Crop diversification.
• Ksh2 billion – Livestock insurance.

Key allocations for Water and Industry

• Ksh36.4 billion – water project.
• Ksh15 billion – irrigation projects.
• Ksh4.6 billion – County Aggregation Industrial Parks (CAIPs).
• Ksh3.8 billion – Land settlement.
• Ksh3.5 billion – National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA).