One hundred percent flexibility – Newspaper Kommersant No. 35 (7480) dated 03/01/2023
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The government yesterday summed up the preliminary results of the implementation of national projects and state programs in 2022 – an almost 100% level of implementation of plans and spending of the budget funds allocated for them was announced. This result is explained by the increased flexibility of administration – for example, by assigning the White House the ability to “transfer” funds between state programs and facilities. This approach will continue to be implemented – in 2023, in order to maintain high rates of execution of government spending with a deficit budget, the regions will be able to receive funds provided for future years in the form of treasury loans.
The White House has launched a series of “strategic sessions” that will assess the development of the economy in the current new external and internal conditions. The first such session was devoted to the results of 2022 in terms of the implementation of national projects and state programs. According to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the implementation of plans and cash execution for national projects are close to 100%, for state programs “the results are a little more modest – the cash desk is about 98%, but the dynamics are positive.” For comparison, the degree of implementation of national projects in 2021 was estimated at 98.5%, the completeness of spending funds on them – also at 98.5%, on state programs – at 97.6%.
The Ministry of Economy told Kommersant that the data presented are preliminary – the department will sum up the final results in April. Recall that state programs (there are about 40 in total) are, in fact, a description of budget expenditures and their relationship with the strategic goals of the authorities. They cover approximately 80% of all government spending, last year 19.5 trillion rubles were allocated for them.
The effectiveness of the execution of state programs has previously been criticized more than once. The turning point occurred in 2020, with the introduction of the government’s anti-crisis powers, which provide for more flexible administration of state programs (in particular, the possibility of “transferring” funds between state programs or facilities). Since last year, these temporary powers have been fixed on a permanent basis. At the same time, the institution of state programs itself was reformatted – due to synchronization with national goals, fixing curators at the level of deputy prime ministers and introducing responsibility for non-fulfillment of plans, as well as digitalization of monitoring (see Kommersant of December 5). As explained to Kommersant in the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, all this makes it possible to monitor the implementation of programs in real time and respond in a timely manner to the risks of non-fulfillment of certain measures.
A role in achieving high rates of implementation of state programs and national projects, obviously, was also played by advanced funding in a number of areas – in particular, the “transfer” of funds included in the budget for subsequent years, for example, for the accelerated construction of roads. As it followed from the words of Mikhail Mishustin at yesterday’s meeting, this practice will be expanded. “Funds for national projects, which are reserved in the federal budget for next year, the regions will be able to receive and use now – through interest-free treasury loans,” the prime minister explained.
It should be noted that this will allow continuing to increase government spending in the face of a deficit budget and falling revenues – while maintaining the pace of implementation of state programs and national projects. However, as you know, they also provide for extrabudgetary participation, which is planned to be further stimulated this year. As Finance Minister Anton Siluanov previously reported, a one-time contribution of large companies to the budget at the expense of their “surplus profits” (see Kommersant of February 9 and 22) will become part of the financing of state programs.
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