Taking the opportunity of the occasion, the Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Mir Changez Khan Jamali strongly recommended increasing the budget of Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) from 0.6% to 1% of GDP by year 2015, further taking it up to 2% by 2020.
He added that the probation budget had been "substantially" protected relative to the overall Ministry of Justice (MoJ) budget - which is being cut by 25% in real terms by 2014-15.
The MPs have an Estimates Day debate on the Budget and Structure of the Ministry of Justice.
To trim bureaucratic powers, it proposes to hand over the Finance Ministry's budget-drafting responsibilities to a new body, the cabinet office.
But he said the SDSR - which cut billions of pounds from the Ministry of Defence budget - would not be revisited.
But the figures don't include spending on various castles and palaces, which are maintained by the state, or official air travel, which comes out of the defense ministry's budget.
Perhaps Prof McWilliams should take a look at the Ministry of Defence procurement budget.
Dr Fox is still locked in negotiations with the Treasury about the Ministry of Defence's budget.
The director of Kabul's central prison, Gen Amir Mohammad Jamshidi, said he was waiting for the finance ministry to clear the prison budget.
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There's even a school of thought that asserts that the government can't assert financial privilege if their amendments don't bust the Ministry of Justice's budget, and just move money around within it.
Defence spending is due to increase this year and next, but military experts say the Ministry of Defence's budget could fall by between 10% and 15% in real terms over the next six years if its current and capital expenditure is reduced in line with forecasts for the rest of government.
Defence spending will be partly protected, with the Ministry of Defence's equipment budget rising by 1% above inflation.
His own economy ministry, anxious to reduce the budget deficit, has questioned where the money will come from.
Mr Luff confirmed that the government expects to make no further cuts to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) budget.
Qinetiq, which has major sites in Farnborough, Malvern and Boscombe Down, said it needed to cut jobs as part of a widespread review of its UK cost-base following cuts in the Ministry of Defence's research budget.
He is being tipped to control the federal budget as head of a beefed-up planning ministry.
In the new budget for the fiscal year starting this April, the ministry pointedly left out any mention of subsidies for Iwakuni.
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This is the context, analysts say, for the proposal from Germany's finance ministry that emerged last week for Greece's budget to be managed in future partly from Brussels.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said that Labour supported attempts to rehabilitate offenders - but said the government's numbers did not add up, because the Ministry of Justice was losing a quarter of its budget and thousands of staff.
Gray Mgonja, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, argues that more money in the budget will help to strengthen anti-corruption measures.
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Jane's Defense Weekly reported last November that Venezuela's Defense Ministry increased its defense spending by 25% for the 2009 budget.
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The Geodesy Council's decision is expected to meet resistance from the other three government agencies with an interest in earthquake prediction and its associated budget the National Land Agency, the Meteorological Agency and the Ministry of Construction.
The finance ministry was also ordered to lower through 2014 the share of the budget revenues from the natural resource sector.
As he prepares for this autumn's budget deals, therefore, the prime minister will have to disappoint the finance ministry if he hopes to win the battle with his party.
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Moreover, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MOEYS) has very limited budget and capacity for this and bilingual education interventions still depend largely on pilot programmes supported by NGOs.
The ministry released its figures in an economic survey ahead of the unveiling of the budget on Thursday.
Culture, traditionally the Cinderella of government departments in Rome, despite Italy's rich artistic and cultural heritage, is getting short shrift in the 2006 budget now painfully making its way through parliament with drastic cuts being forced on practically every ministry.
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At its inception, the purpose of the Council was to take formulation of key economic and financial policies and the national budget out of the hands of career bureaucrats in powerful ministries, particularly the Ministry of Finance, and put policy-making in the hands of elected officials, acting on advice of both the bureaucracy and academics and business leaders.
Jordan's Ministry of Tourism, for example, spends just 10-15% of its budget in the Gulf, although visitors from the Gulf account for 67% of tourism revenue.
To overcome that resistance, Mr Koizumi was originally happy to appeal to the finance ministry since his limit on borrowing helped win its support for a lower-spending budget.
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