The East African Tuesday April 06 2021 Kenya’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has advised the National Treasury to defer projects by one year even as Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury Ukur Yatani prepares to table a spending plan for Ksh3 trillion ($27.52 billion) in the 2021/22 fiscal year amid growing pressure to control public expenditure, reduce borrowing and put off new projects to save a struggling economy. PBO wants Treasury to rationalise recurrent spending as much as possible and freeze nominal expenditure growth for all spending categories particularly growth supportive sectors such as energy and infrastructure. The MPs have also demanded that infrastructure spending be limited to major road networks and that the government should reinforce the work-from-home option for public servants and encourage shift to online platforms for meetings to reduce demands on operations and maintenance.