MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers have called out the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for not utilizing the budget given to the department in 2022, but the agency explained that it is still reorganizing the projects that the past administration left behind. During the House committee hearing on appropriations, DICT officials presented the current state of their budget utilization months ahead of the executive's submission of its proposed 2024 budget to Congress. DICT's presentations showed that for the allocations in 2022 and the continuing fund for 2023, only three percent of the P827 million ICT and Cybersecurity Policies Development and Management budget under Program 1 (ICT Governance Program) had been obligated, and two percent disbursed.

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