Question 5781 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Moerani Frébault draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty to the lack of clarity of credits intended for overseas. During the examination of the finance bill (PLF), the credits intended for overseas territories are distributed among multiple budgetary missions and are not limited to the “Overseas” mission alone. This dispersion of credits makes it difficult for parliamentarians a global and precise understanding of the budgetary effort made by the State in favor of these territories. According to the Court of Auditors, in 2023, budgetary appropriations dedicated to overseas territories represented a little more than 3.8% of expenditure in the general State budget, or 22.16 billion euros in payment appropriations, spread over 101 programs relating to 32 different missions. The “Overseas” mission only represented 13% of this effort, far behind the “School education” mission, which alone brought together 37% of the funds intended for overseas. This fragmentation of credits harms the clarity of the State's real budgetary effort in favor of overseas territories. It complicates the analysis for parliamentarians, making it more difficult to have an overall understanding of the State's financial commitments towards these territories. The document of transversal policy (DPT) “overseas” is supposed to offer a consolidated vision of the financial effort of the State. However, according to a Senate report, this document suffers from an obvious lack of readability and is not available within a time frame allowing Parliament to use it effectively during budgetary debates. Faced with this lack of visibility and the resulting complexity, he asks him if he plans to make available overseas parliamentarians a summary document detailing all the credits allocated to overseas territories, all missions combined, in order to facilitate budgetary review and ensure better transparency on the State's financial commitments.

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