Chapter 260: Current Development Issues_3

After a small period of silence, Minister of Education Richard Noble Chapman stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the tasks of the education department this year are heavy, and our budget is already short. The Ministry of Education requests at least 5 million Australian dollars for the financial budget, to be used for the expansion of existing universities and to construct two new universities."

"How is the work of the Education Department going on at present? Approximately how much is your finance budget for this year? Has it been spent so quickly?" Arthur queried.

At the annual end of the year summary meeting, the financial budget for the next year is allocated to each department based on the circumstances of the previous year.

A department like the Ministry of Education, which the government attaches extra consideration to, typically receives an extra budget of around two million Australian dollars.