When the budget document is revealed to all of us as members of Parliament, those decisions, as you know, are made by the finance minister and the Prime Minister. It isn't so much that we receive a reason that certain amounts are funded. Sometimes we may know that, given expenditure history and that kind of thing. The difficult decision-making of government is to decide how it will spend money on the competing priorities across government. What happens right after is that the department goes through the budget with a fine-tooth comb, determines what it has for various different pieces of work, and then begins to plan the work for the year ahead, based on what the allocation is to the department.
On December 1st, 2022. See this statement in context.