- The Executive has already allocated 1,127 million euros for the deployment of investments of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan
- Transfers to the Autonomous Community in the form of accounts and extraordinary liquidity mechanisms amounted to 5,165 million euros in 2022
- 254,000 pensioners have benefited this year from the revaluation of pensions under the CPI
- 61,296 people have received the Minimum Vital Income
- The government delegate highlights the high degree of compliance with the commitments made by the Government of Spain to counteract in the Region of Murcia the economic effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine
January 16, 2023. The Government of Spain allocated 6.3 billion euros to the Region of Murcia in 2022 to support the Welfare State and promote territorial cohesion and economic dynamization, the government delegate reported today.
During a press conference in which he presented the Complying Report, which details the high degree of compliance with the commitments assumed by the central Executive, José Vélez defended the importance of the action, policies and investments of the Government of Spain in the Region of Murcia during 2022, a year, he said, conditioned still by the effects of the pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
The government delegate has indicated that the Central Executive has already allocated 1,127 million euros to the Region of Murcia for the deployment of investments of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, including 258 million from the OBJECTIVE-EU Funds.
Of the remaining 869 million, the Autonomous Community has received 611 through transfers in Sectoral Conference, agreements and direct concessions agreed with the Regional Government itself, and 258 million through direct execution by the State.
“The Government of Spain has made unprecedented investments in our Region to provide the Autonomous Community with the necessary funds to execute policies of its competence and, therefore, sustain and strengthen the Welfare State. Thus, in addition to the funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, it has transferred 5,165 million euros to the Autonomous Community in terms of account deliveries and extraordinary liquidity mechanisms, apart from another series of actions and investments that have had a decisive impact on the well-being and quality of life of the citizens of the Region of Murcia”, he explained.
Among them, Vélez has highlighted those with a high social component, such as the revaluation of pensions under the CPI in 2022, from which 254,000 pensioners have benefited, the Minimum Vital Income, which has received 61,296 people in our Region, the 10,837 people who have obtained the maternity supplement and/or the supplement to reduce the gender gap in pensions, or the 23,896 people benefiting from the 200 euros of aid for families with less income and assets.
“They are measures and investments that obey the responsibility and value of the given word and that have favored economic dynamization and impulse, social and territorial cohesion, the development of infrastructures, the protection of the environment, the support of innovation, the promotion of culture, sport and protection of heritage, Education and Health”, he added.
Support for the most affected and disadvantaged sectors and groups
The government delegate stressed that the commitments made by the Executive with the Region of Murcia have materialized in numerous and decisive economic measures to support the workers, students, sectors and groups most affected.
“Nearly 40,000 people have benefited from the free purchase of Renfe’s multi-travel subscriptions in the vicinity and half distance from 1 September to 31 December 2022, a measure that is scheduled to be extended in 2023. In addition, 1.2 million euros have been provisionally granted to finance the discount of 30% of the price of public collective transport to regular travelers in the Region of Murcia. Extrapolable aid to sectors particularly affected by the economic difficulties resulting from the war in Ukraine, such as the beef, sheep, goat, dairy, citrus and cuniculture sectors, which have received 6.1 million euros of exceptional aid,” he said.
Vélez has assured that such commitment and investment effort has allowed citizens, self-employed people, companies and disadvantaged groups to face with more and better resources in the year 2023.
The government delegate has argued that the Regional Government is the main beneficiary of these funds, since they cover a large part of the basic services of its competence.
“Among all of them, there are very important measures of economic impulse and support for innovation, such as the 23.6 million euros corresponding to the extraordinary call for the program of Tourist Sustainability Plans in Destination 2022, the 7.9 million euros destined for the investment “Digital transformation and modernization of the Autonomous Communities”, or the 3.1 million euros for the modernization and digitalization of the Local Entities, to give some examples of the needs they meet, although the regional government rarely assigns them as its own and conceals their origin,” he said.
Vélez has also highlighted the 9.6 million euros intended to support the commercial sector to enhance its digital and sustainable transformation and strengthen the fabric in small and medium-sized towns and tourist areas, the 2,295 SMEs benefiting from the Digital Kit Programme, the 68.1 million euros intended for active employment policies and the 28.4 million in Training for Employment.
“Women, with six million euros to combat gender violence or young people, with 8.8 million euros for the Young Rent Bonus, are priority groups for the Government of Spain, which has also allocated 15.2 million euros to the State Housing Plan in the Region of Murcia, and 14.7 million for the construction of social housing for affordable rent,” said the government delegate.
Finally, Vélez wanted to remember that infrastructures and strategic environments are also part of these commitments made by the Government of Spain with the Region of Murcia, so it has highlighted the impetus to the Mediterranean Corridor with the inauguration on December 19 of the 16 kilometer stretch Beniel-Murcia and the high-speed line Murcia-Madrid, and the 116.9 million euros invested in priority actions for the recovery of the Mar Menor and aid to municipalities in the environment for the improvement of their sanitation and purification networks.
“In short, investments with which the Government of Spain “complies” with the Region of Murcia and which respond to the commitment made by the President of the Government to report to the citizens on the progress of government action on a regular and systematic basis, making known the state of compliance of the commitments made by the Executive,” he concluded.
At the state level, the Government of Spain has assumed a total of 1,513 commitments, of which it has already fulfilled 66.8%, and it is expected that in the first half of 2023 it will reach 72.9%. If you add the commitments fulfilled to those in which you are currently working, almost all of the commitments are activated, already standing at 98% of the total.