Agenda: Financing the construction of the M-12 road, maintaining the stability of regional budgets, the state construction programme.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Marat Khusnullin’s report on the state construction programme
Excerpts from the transcript:
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.
As per the President’s instruction, we continue to actively develop the road infrastructure. New roads across Russia will facilitate the growth of regional economies and improve the quality of life of millions of our citizens.
One of the largest projects is the M-12 road from Moscow to Kazan, which will later be extended to Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. It will become part of the Russia international transport corridor and amid sanctions will be able to significantly improve trade ties with Asia.
We plan to launch traffic to Kazan before the end of the year. The Government will allocate 30 billion roubles for this purpose. It is important that all the money be used with maximum efficiency and for the purpose intended. I want to ask the Ministry of Transport to monitor this issue.
The President set the task to develop additional mechanisms to maintain the stability of regional budgets. We continue the work to support the Russian regions and today will send some 9.5 billion roubles to ten regions. This will help them improve their budgets and balance income and expenditure. Mr Siluanov, we spoke about this in detail, so please monitor carefully to make sure that all the funding needed to fulfill, in the first place, all social obligations to our citizens, are delivered to the Russian regions on time.
The Government is working systematically to improve the efficiency of capital investment management. Last year, a decision was made to coordinate all construction projects using federal budget resources. New approaches to the construction of buildings and infrastructure have already been identified and are being implemented, as we recently reported to the President and which we reviewed as part of the preparation of the Strategy for the Development of the Construction Industry and the Housing and Utilities Sector.
Now we are finalising the list of facilities that are to be financed within five years.
Mr Khusnullin, please tell us in more detail about the government construction programme.
Marat Khusnullin: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.
In accordance with the President's instructions following the 21 June 2022 State Council meeting, and in line with the Construction Industry Development Strategy approved by the Government and taking into account the decisions made under your leadership, we have drawn up a five-year integrated programme with a list of facilities to be built using federal budget funds for the first time since the Soviet era. The programme also takes into account regional budgets and extra-budgetary sources. In other words, this programme includes all possible funds to be raised for the construction of various facilities, subject to budget financing. The total federal budget funds for its implementation amount to around 4.7 trillion roubles, of which 1.4 trillion roubles will go directly to the regions. All the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are involved in the programme's implementation.
Thanks to the programme, our citizens should receive the infrastructure that is necessary for a comfortable life in a timely manner.
The list makes it possible to complete all the facilities that have been started and to prevent new unfinished construction. The programme has also been balanced by taking into account the five-year plans for the construction of road facilities previously approved by the Government.
The programme covers a total of several thousand facilities, including such landmarks as the St Petersburg-Moscow-Kazan-Yekaterinburg-Tyumen-Vladivostok motorway, city bypasses, river bridges (in particular, a bridge like the Togliatti bypass), major airports, research centres, healthcare facilities, and landmark cultural facilities. The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St Petersburg, and many other facilities will be completed.
A total of about 145 federal and major regional facilities are scheduled to be constructed in 2023, as well as about 1,500 more regional facilities: kindergartens, schools, medical and obstetric centres, outpatient clinics and other infrastructure facilities that our citizens need locally.
This work is coordinated and led by the Ministry of Construction. The Ministry has also compiled a list of facilities, which can be additionally built if financing is available. An instruction to this effect was issued by the President after a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects.
The authority to manage capital investments and a flexible rescheduling mechanism, which worked successfully in 2022, must be maintained for the implementation of the priority financing programme in 2023, making it possible to meet all the plans in full and even exceed them and build more facilities at a number of sites. This has been particularly applicable regarding the construction of road facilities.
The list of facilities has been coordinated with all national objectives and state programmes and is aimed at achieving their indicators.
For the first time a comprehensive document has been prepared that is a result of constructive cooperation between the Deputy Prime Ministers, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development, the relevant federal executive authorities and the Government Executive Office. The adoption of the list will make it possible to quickly and efficiently build the facilities included in it.
I want to thank all my colleagues for the tremendous work that we have done together.
Mikhail Mishustin: Mr Khusnullin, you must move swiftly to implement the plans, they will help solve the most important challenges in a wide range of areas. And of course, I ask you to pay special attention to controlling the way money is spent. Substantial resources are envisaged for these projects. We need to do everything to ensure that every rouble allocated for these purposes is used effectively.
