Ministers will have to present a savings plan to contain the surge in expenditure deemed essential.
The members of the government now know their room for maneuver for next year. With a little delay on the usual calendar, the letters ceilings have just been sent to each minister, thus fixing the main lines of the expenses to come. An exercise that is part of the 2023 draft budget, which must be presented at the end of September by the Le Maire-Attal tandem before being debated in the fall in Parliament.
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Taking into account the allocations granted, State budget expenditure will reach 339 billion euros in 2023, which represents a slight increase over one year, but a decrease of 2.5% in volume. No madness, then. ” This phase should allow us to implement the presidential program for the five-year term, while meeting our objectives of gradually reducing the public deficit to return to 3% of GDP in 2027. “, explained this Monday Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, in The echoes.
Next year, the government will focus on three “blocks » considered as the“essential drivers of the five-year term” : training and employment, government and ecological transition. The Labor budget will increase by 6.7 billion to finance the rise of apprenticeship in particular, after Elisabeth Borne set the milestone of one million young people on work-study programs to be reached during the five-year term.
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The Education budget will also experience a historic increase of 3.6 billion euros, to keep Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to continue to raise teachers’ salaries, especially at the start of their career, where no young teacher will start below 2000 euros net per month.
The sovereign bloc (Defence, Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs) will jump by 6.1 billion in 2023, half of which for the Ministry of the Armed Forces alone. This increase should also make it possible to meet the objectives of the “Beauvau de la sécurité”, which provides for the doubling of the presence of law enforcement on the ground by 2030. Justice credits will also benefit from a increase of 8%, in order to continue the recruitment of new magistrates and to respect the plans for the construction of new prison places.
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As for the Ministries of Environmental Transition, Territorial Cohesion and Agriculture, they will have an additional 3.3 billion euros at their disposal to intensify efforts around the energy renovation of buildings and the continued greening of the vehicle fleet. .
At the same time, all the ministers will have to propose a savings plan to contain the overall increase in state spending, the workforce of which will have to remain stable over the entire five-year period.
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