Despite these increases, which also concern justice, the interior or the ecological transition, “public spending in the broad sense will decrease by 0.3 % in volume next year”, assures the Minister responsible for public accounts In an interview with “Echos”.
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The government ensures that it would be an “unprecedented” increase. The executive wishes to increase by 11.4 %, that is to say from 12.5 billion euros, the credits allocated to the Ministries of Education, Labor and Solidarity in the Budget 2023, announced the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, in an interview published Monday August 8 in Les Echos .
“The employment budget will increase in particular by 6.7 billion, in particular in order to finance the rise of learning, with an objective of 1 million apprentices by the end of the five -year term” , he detailed.
The Ministry of National Education “will benefit from a historical increase (+ 3.6 billion) of its credits. The commitment of the President of the Republic of the pursuit of wages will be held and no teacher n ‘will enter the career within 2,000 euros net, “assured Mr. Attal.
Increases for justice and the ecological transition
Additional credits will also be allocated to the Ministries of Defense, Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs, says the Minister, promising an increased budget of “6.1 billion euros”.
“A very important increase that we assume in order to hold in particular the commitment of an increase of 3 billion of the credits of the armies in 2023, but also the objectives of the Beauvau of Security, which provides for the doubling of the presence of police forces on the ground by 2030, “said Mr. Attal.
The budget of the Ministry of Justice will increase by 8 % “in order to continue the recruitment of new magistrates and respect the construction plans for new prison places”. As for the ministries of ecological transition and territorial cohesion and that of agriculture, they “will have an additional 3.3 billion euros”.
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Despite these increases, “public spending in the broad sense will decrease by 0.3 % in volume next year”, explains Mr. Attal, before adding:
“The document (…) provides that the credits of the state budget will amount to 339 billion euros in 2023, an almost stability in value compared to the post-law of amending finance, and A decrease of 2.5 % in volume. This will keep the objective of a deficit at 5 % GDP [gross domestic product] next year while funding our priorities. “
The Minister does not deliver any details on the saving sites that will have to be carried out to balance this budget. The 2023 finance bill, which will be discussed in the National Assembly in the fall, promises harsh debates with oppositions.