He gets better, but does not approve. The Government of Asturias is still “clearly insufficient” budget execution speed State central, According to data corresponding to the first period (30 June) published this Tuesday by the General Government Intervention. The principality considers an “improvement” in execution rate compared to bad data at the end of 2021, but not enough to satisfy the district administrator. Of course, Government sources say that the President’s talks, Adrian BarbonThe impact of these meetings is yet to be confirmed in the latest data, as pressures from the central government took place on 20 and 21 June, with various ministries underway to improve the fulfillment of its promises. The first infrastructure monitoring commission was held in July.
“We hope that the State will see a greater execution in the second half of 2022; this is the target we will work towards,” said sources from the Executive Board. Adrian Barbon.
Execution data for the first half of this year Place Asturias below the national averagewas weighed mainly by Adif’s poor investment compliance. In the public sector as a whole, Asturias remained in the sixth-worst community with 21.9 percent of executions. Considering only the investment made by the General State Administration (excluding Adif and other organisations), Asturias achieves a 27.5% realization percentage, which is still below the national average (33.6%) if the data is evaluated homogeneously. The Ministry of Transport only achieves an execution rate of 28.4% in its portfolio items in Asturias.
Rail infrastructures are often a paid area in Asturias for budget promises. It happened again in the General State Budget project for the coming year: The amount of investment promised for Asturias by the central government is 420.88 million, which is 7% more than the figure corresponding to 2022. However, 124 million of this amount was allocated to the “CercanÃas Asturias” item within the Railway Infrastructure Manager (Adif), which showed low compliance in realizing the investments planned for the year as a whole.
Expenditure data for the first half of the year are not optimistic for Asturya’s slums. Adif offers a different rhythm of execution according to the balance of the State’s General Intervention until 30 June. For example, High Speed ​​fits perfectly in the execution of investments, but limps in those referring to neighborhoods. same thing happens renfewith low level execution of what is reflected in its budget for this year.
At high speed, Asturias is the leader in execution. The opposite would be worrisome, given that the infrastructure work under construction, Pajares Bypass, should be delivered by the end of the year for traffic tests to begin. Thus, Adif realized 86.3% of the budget in Asturias in June and 23 of 26 million was completed. Although in other communities (Madrid, Murcia, Navarra or the Basque Country) Adif-Alta Velocidad achieves an application percentage of over 40 percent, this is the best data in all of Spain.
The average execution percentage for the whole of Spain is 28.5 percent.
But this image changes radically in the environment. In Adif’s particular game (which excludes high speed), the rail company only averages 9 percent execution. Adif manages to spend at a good pace in low-budget communities. Even in Navarra, it ended up spending six times more than expected in June. In addition, in Galicia, where the planned investment reached 286 million Euros, Adif managed to realize 23.3% in June. In the case of Asturias, mid-year executive compliance only reached 10.2%, realizing 11.1 million of the 109.4 budgeted.
At Renfe, the numbers aren’t the best one would expect either. The percentage of executions in Asturias is 14% compared to the national average of 19.4%. In Asturias, the railway company spent 5.1m euros mid-year out of the 36.7 budgeted for the full current year. Overall, Renfe has a low execution rate. The exception is Madrid, where the rail has spent everything budgeted and an extra 52% more as of 31 June. However, none of the other autonomies can reach even 25%.
While we’ll have to wait to hear final implementation data from Adif and Renfe for this full year, the question of how much of what’s committed in the 2023 Budgets will finally be implemented remains on the table.
Last year, the central government allocated 79.88 million euros for Asturias from Adif, of which only 19.4 million were finally executed, with a compliance rating of 24.3 percent. Thus, in the 2021 budgets, Asturias emerged as the community with the highest per capita rail investment in Spain, but when analyzing what was actually spent, the Principality was fifth in the State. Of the 79 euros promised per Asturian in the 2021 Budget, Adif has implemented just 19.2 euros per Asturian.
Delia Losa considers the data “very positive” and confirms that they will improve by the end of the year.
Delia Losa, the Government delegate in Asturias, evaluated the executive data for the first period of investments transferred to the Principality in the General Government Budgets of 2022, in the example of the State General Administration, “very positive”. (ministries) at 27.5 percent, just ten points above the figure recorded as of 30 June 2021. “This is a very positive number and unlike last year, all planned investments are continuing,” said Losa. Argayos, who later paralyzed the construction of the A-63 motorway (Oviedo-La Espina), also stressed that both this work and the construction of the Pajares bypass and the third lane of the “Y” are “in the process of completion”. The delegate also stressed that there has been an increase in the degree of implementation, usually in the second half of the year, which is expected to reach more than double that carried out by the end of the year by June.
Punishment for Catalonia again: “The government should be ashamed of it”
The Catalan Government was once again seriously disturbed by the budget implementation data for the first period. In Catalonia, although it has invested 65% of the State’s budget globally, the majority corresponds to a compensation of 1,000 million for improvements to the toll roads. By reducing this amount, the Government achieves a budget implementation of 16% of what was promised, which will be one of the lowest in Spain. “The Catalans have a problem with the State that finances them, doesn’t invest much and doesn’t execute, however little it does,” said Catalan government spokesperson Patricia Plaja. “The central government should lay its face in shame,” she said.
Source: Informacion
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