Proposing to recover and handle more than 35 billion VND for wrongdoing in public investment

Through the inspection, this agency has requested the relevant units and organizations to seriously review, learn from experience, and promptly correct the limitations and errors in the implementation and observance of the law in investment. labour.

Regarding the recovery and fines, the Ministry of Planning and Investment proposes to handle the amount of 35.36 billion VND (of which the collection of the central budget is 0.41 billion VND, the recovery to the local budget is 2.66 billion VND, reduced unless final settlement is 0.76 million dong, other economic settlement is 31.53 billion dong).

Regarding the allocation and implementation of the state budget public investment plan in 2022, statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment show that by the end of April 25, the total capital of ministries, central agencies and localities had been allocated. there is a decision to assign details to projects that are eligible for investment procedures and are eligible for disbursement in 2022 at VND 479,500 billion, reaching 92.6% of the capital the Prime Minister has assigned the plan to the ministries, central and local authorities.

However, the amount of unallocated capital by ministries, central agencies and localities is still quite large (VND 38,578 billion), equal to about 7.4% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister. The main reason is that a number of ministries, central and local agencies are completing investment procedures (investment decisions) for projects that have just been assigned a medium-term public investment plan by the Prime Minister. State books for the period of 2021 – 2025.

According to a report of the Ministry of Finance, the state budget capital in 2022 estimated to be paid by April 30, 2022 is 95,700 billion VND, reaching 18.48% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, approximately the same period in 2021.

There are 7 ministries and 8 localities with the disbursement rate reaching over 25%. There are 43/51 ministries and 28/63 localities with disbursement rate below 17%, of which 17 ministries and central agencies have not yet disbursed capital plans.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment assessed that the disbursement of the public investment capital plan in the first 4 months of 2022 was basically similar to that of previous years, the disbursement rate in the first months of the year was low, the trend increased sharply in the last months…

However, the reason for the slow disbursement is still due to many shortcomings in the organization and implementation of ministries, branches and localities. All levels and branches have not really participated, the roles and responsibilities of the head have not been promoted, unclear…

In 2022, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said it planned to organize 6 specialized inspections on the observance of the law on public investment in the 2016-2020 period in the provinces of Cao Bang, Hoa Binh, Binh Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien Hue, Tuyen Quang.

The planning of state budget investment, especially foreign investment, is not close to reality, leading to the cancellation of foreign capital in 2021 quite large, about 20,000 billion VND (about 870 million USD).