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Answer for Oral Question PL282

QUESTION​

Yang Berhormat Awang Haji Salleh Bostaman bin Haji Zainal Abidin​

YANG BERHORMAT AWANG HAJI SALLEH BOSTAMAN BIN HAJI ZAINAL ABIDIN asks Yang Berhormat Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Kewangan dan Ekonomi II to state to what extent the Fiscal Consolidation Programme audits government assets such as rental houses and properties managed by various ministries. Does the Ministry have a comprehensive inventory plan to identify whether there are overlaps and potential savings? When will the assessment report be shared?

ANSWER​

Yang Berhormat Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Kewangan dan Ekonomi II​

Thank you Yang Berhormat Yang Di-Pertua, Kaola would like to express thanks to Yang Berhormat Awang Haji Salleh Bostaman bin Haji Zainal Abidin for the question regarding the extent to which the Fiscal Consolidation Programme audits government assets such as rental houses and properties managed by various ministries.

For the information of Your Honourable Members, regarding the assets of the Government of Negara Brunei Darussalam, particularly government buildings, this was previously shared in the First Meeting of the Second Session of the Seventeenth Legislative Council in 2021 by the former Yang Berhormat Menteri Pembangunan and Kaola would like to add that this matter is under the monitoring of the Ministry of Development through the Department of Building Services under the Public Works Department, where a centralized unit has also been established under the Ministry of Development which plays a role in monitoring and managing vacant and abandoned government buildings.

In that regard as well, the Ministry of Development has been provided an allocation under the Twelfth National Development Plan for the implementation of the Government Assets and Infrastructure System (GAIS), with a Plan Budget of $5.8 million, and at present, the said project is still at the design stage.

For the further information of Your Honourable Members, under the Fiscal Consolidation Programme (FCP), ministries are encouraged to reassess their respective expenditures including those still in planning. This also includes where there is a need to construct new buildings, the ministry concerned is advised to consult and discuss with the Ministry of Development, if there is suitability for existing vacant buildings to be provided for reuse.

In addition, the Ministry of Finance and Economy through the Special Committee on Corporatisation and Public-Private Partnership (JK-P-KAS) is also currently actively examining and compiling a list of Public-Private Partnership or PPP projects and corporatisation projects that have the potential to contribute to government expenditure savings, particularly in the aspect of asset acquisition and national infrastructure development.

That is all. Thank you Yang Berhormat Yang Di-Pertua.

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