DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest said uncovering a history of over-budgeting has allowed the Minnis administration to trim its budget, especially with respect to spending on personal emoluments.

He said: “You would be interested to know what we found after doing a ministry-by-ministry, line-item-by-line item analysis of actual government expenditure compared to budgeted sums. We found a historical pattern of over-budgeting. In the category of personal emoluments, for example, we found that the budget included allocations for salaries that were no longer being paid. How is this possible? You have situations where the employment register is outdated and does not reflect some of the employees who retire, leave the public service and move into pensioner status. Although these individuals are not being paid, their salaries are still being budgeted for...

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