The cabinet meeting on Tuesday 4, January 2011 has come to the following decision:
The Cabinet approved in principle the draft of the Royal Decree on Child Education Benefit (... Edition) Year..., as proposed by the Ministry of Finance. The draft has been forwarded to the Office of the Council of State for verification and approved to proceed.
Background
The Ministry of Finance proposed that, since the 1980 Royal Decree on Child Education Benefit, amended by article 8 of the 2005 Royal Decree on Child Education Benefit (5th Edition), has imposed certain limitation on the right of those eligible for the benefit, which is, those eligible for benefit but already receive child education benefit from other agency would be automatically ineligible to receive the benefit, except the current benefit is less than the benefit given by the Royal Decree, the proposed Royal Decree gives the benefit to the aforementioned benefit receivers in case that the benefits they are receiving are sill fall short of the actual expense. Because other agencies giving the benefit would impose the same restriction, the Royal Decree aims to prevent a legal problem that could arise, which would prevent benefit receivers from being able to claim the benefit from government agencies and other agencies.
The Cabinet considered budget allocation for temporary additional pay for private school teachers, to be disbursed from Financial Support Budget in the form of General Financial Support.
1. The Cabinet in Fiscal Year 2010, approved 267,359,608 Baht from the Central Budget, Reserve for Emergency or Necessary Expenses for private school teachers, disbursed from May to September, 2010.
2. The Cabinet approved in principle the Ministry of Education's disbursement of fund from the Fiscal Year 2011 Central Budget, Reserve for Emergency or Necessary Expenses, worth 641,663,058 Baht. The Ministry of Education has been assigned to verify the number of eligible teachers and to request for budgetary support for schools whose list of eligible teachers has been checked from the cabinet. The ministry has also been assigned to make an agreement in detail with the Budget Bureau on quarterly basis.
The Cabinet acknowledged the result of the 4/2010 Southern-border Provinces Committee meeting, held on December 28, 2010, as proposed by the Secretary General of the National Economic and Social Development Board and the Secretary to the Southern-border Provinces Committee. The following is the synopsis of the meeting.
On December 28, 2010, the Southern-border Provinces Committee considered the result of the review on projects under Southern Development Plan, such as, The Public Relation Department's public relation project on the operation for peace in the south, worth 45 million Baht, Songkla Nakarindhara University's Faculty of Medicines' renovation for Intensive Care Unit of Songkla Nakarindhara Hospital, worth 162.45 million Baht.
Southern-border Provinces Committee Resolution
1. Alteration to the Public Relation Department's local public relation plan for the operation for peace in the south, worth 45 million Baht, was approved in order to shift the budget to fund flood relief effort, as proposed by the Public Relation Department.
2. Change to the plan to improve the Intensive Care Unit of Songkla Nakarindhara Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine, worth 150 million Baht, was approved in order to shift its budget to fund the flood relief programme, as proposed by the Ministry of Education.
The Cabinet acknowledged report on the result of the short term facility loan for state enterprises under 200,000 million Baht, as proposed by the Ministry of Finance.
Synopsis
The Ministry of Finance reported that it has made a Memorandum of Understanding on selection of short term facility loan for 6 state enterprises and government-run financial institutions, on May 7, 2010, with a total credit of 200,000 million Baht. This is to enable state enterprises to directly seek short term loan so that flexibility in management and domestic borrowing management can be increased. Also, the structure can be in sync with the demand for loan of the state enterprises, and it can be a mechanism of the state to manage its loans so that there will not be a state of bottleneck at any given time. In the past, the Ministry of Finance has prepared short term facility loan, worth 1 billion, for the State Railways of Thailand, with the Ministry of Finance guaranteeing the loan.
The Cabinet acknowledged the criteria and benchmark under the 2000 Government Information Act for the public sector, as proposed by the Office of the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Office. The following is the synopsis.
1. The implementation of the project to compile criteria and benchmark for transparency under the 2000 Government Information Act.
2. The piloted project to comply with the criteria and benchmark for transparency under the 2000 Government Information Act.
--Cabinet Meeting (Abhisit Vejjajiva) January 4, 2011--