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The Executive proposes ₱182.90 B through offices based in Region V for FY2027, against ₱187.86 B in the enacted FY2026 law. That is 27 departments and 40,532 line items. Read in seven steps, because two of them change what the rest of the numbers mean.
Seven steps down
01A proposal, not a law
Nothing on this page has been appropriated yet.
The National Expenditure Program is the Executive’s submission. Congress works it over, sometimes heavily, and what comes out the other end is the General Appropriations Act. Treating an NEP figure as money already committed is the most common mistake made with this dataset, so it is worth fixing before the tables start. Nationally the proposal is ₱7.20 T against ₱6.79 T enacted for FY2026, a move of +5.99 per cent. Region V moves -2.64 per cent over the same pair of years.
02Two kinds of money
39 per cent of the Bicol figure is never argued over line by line.
The largest single entry in the region is not a department. Automatic Appropriations, ₱71.53 B, flows by standing law rather than by annual debate, chiefly the National Tax Allotment owed to local government units. It is one line item and it is identical in both years. Everything a budget hearing can actually change sits in the other ₱111.37 B.
Why this matters when you read the table below. A percentage change on the Region V total is damped by a flat block of money worth two fifths of it. Strip the automatic row out and the agency side moves from ₱116.33 B to ₱111.37 B, which is -4.26 per cent, a sharper fall than the headline suggests.
03Where it goes
Schools take the largest departmental share, by a distance.
The seven biggest entries below carry 95.9 per cent of the regional figure. Education alone is ₱63.46 B across 29,800 line items, which is most of the line item count in the whole region. The other 20 departments are on the browse tab.
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| Department | FY2027 proposed | FY2026 enacted | Change | Line items |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Appropriations dept AUTO |
₱71.53 B | ₱71.53 B | +0.0% 0 |
1 |
| Department of Education (DepEd) dept 07 |
₱63.46 B | ₱61.01 B | +4.0% +₱2.45 B |
29,800 |
| Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) dept 20 |
₱11.85 B | ₱12.80 B | -7.5% -₱954.5 M |
189 |
| Department of Health (DOH) dept 13 |
₱9.53 B | ₱8.47 B | +12.5% +₱1.06 B |
471 |
| Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) dept 18 |
₱7.52 B | ₱14.25 B | -47.3% -₱6.74 B |
627 |
| State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) dept 08 |
₱7.21 B | ₱7.26 B | -0.7% -₱49.3 M |
1,607 |
| Department of Agriculture (DA) dept 05 |
₱4.35 B | ₱5.37 B | -19.0% -₱1.02 B |
881 |
04What moved
One department accounts for more than the whole regional fall.
Ranked by peso change rather than percentage, so a small base cannot manufacture a big number. The Region V total is down ₱4.96 B. Public Works alone is down ₱6.74 B, and increases elsewhere absorb the difference.
Increases
| Department | Change | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education (DepEd) | +₱2.45 B | +4.0% |
| Department of Health (DOH) | +₱1.06 B | +12.5% |
| Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) | +₱265.7 M | +35.4% |
| Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) | +₱104.0 M | +8.5% |
| Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) | +₱79.8 M | +9.6% |
Reductions
| Department | Change | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) | -₱6.74 B | -47.3% |
| Department of Agriculture (DA) | -₱1.02 B | -19.0% |
| Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) | -₱954.5 M | -7.5% |
| Budgetary Support to Government Corporations (BSGC) | -₱350.0 M | -100.0% |
| State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) | -₱49.3 M | -0.7% |
05The row that needs context
Public Works falls in every region and rises in Manila.
The DPWH line for Region V falls -47.3%. On its own that reads as a cut to Bicol road and flood control work. All 17 of the department’s regional lines are here, because the national picture says something else.
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| DPWH by region | FY2027 | FY2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Capital Region | ₱520.80 B | ₱340.41 B | +53.0% |
| Region III Central Luzon | ₱17.50 B | ₱18.82 B | -7.0% |
| Region IVA CALABARZON | ₱16.16 B | ₱26.12 B | -38.1% |
| Region II Cagayan Valley | ₱9.22 B | ₱11.52 B | -20.0% |
| Region V Bicol | ₱7.52 B | ₱14.25 B | -47.3% |
| Region X Northern Mindanao | ₱7.10 B | ₱13.91 B | -49.0% |
| Region IX Zamboanga Peninsula | ₱6.94 B | ₱8.38 B | -17.1% |
| Region VIII Eastern Visayas | ₱6.89 B | ₱14.43 B | -52.2% |
| Cordillera Administrative Region | ₱6.66 B | ₱8.53 B | -21.9% |
| Region VII Central Visayas | ₱6.59 B | ₱12.27 B | -46.3% |
| Negros Island Region | ₱6.52 B | ₱9.12 B | -28.5% |
| Region I Ilocos | ₱6.19 B | ₱8.90 B | -30.5% |
| Region VI Western Visayas | ₱6.07 B | ₱11.72 B | -48.2% |
| Region IVB MIMAROPA | ₱5.52 B | ₱8.12 B | -32.0% |
| Region XII SOCCSKSARGEN | ₱5.27 B | ₱7.18 B | -26.7% |
| Region XI Davao | ₱4.61 B | ₱9.62 B | -52.0% |
| CARAGA | ₱4.41 B | ₱7.60 B | -42.0% |
DPWH nationally rises. The department goes from ₱530.90 B to ₱643.95 B, up +21.3%. Its National Capital Region line rises +53.0% while every other line in the table falls, 16 of 17 of them. DPWH central offices sit in Metro Manila and the region tag records the implementing office, so what this shows is money moving from regional books onto central ones. Whether the same work still gets built in Bicol, commissioned from Manila, is not something an appropriation can answer. Our own record of what actually got built is in flood control projects.
06Bicol against everywhere else
Bicol has the 4th largest regional book of 18, and 16 of the 19 books shrink.
Every book the proposal is tagged to, largest first. Bicol sits behind Metro Manila, CALABARZON and Central Luzon, which is roughly where its population puts it. Watch the second row: Central Office is not a place. It is 25.5 per cent of the entire national proposal, it grows +20.6 per cent, and it is where centrally implemented work gets counted no matter which province the concrete lands in.
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| Book | FY2027 proposed | FY2026 enacted | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Capital Region | ₱2.81 T | ₱2.63 T | +6.7% |
| Central Officenot a place | ₱1.84 T | ₱1.52 T | +20.6% |
| Region IVA CALABARZON | ₱291.71 B | ₱306.28 B | -4.8% |
| Region III Central Luzon | ₱276.62 B | ₱279.07 B | -0.9% |
| Region V Bicol | ₱182.90 B | ₱187.86 B | -2.6% |
| Region VIII Eastern Visayas | ₱163.93 B | ₱175.31 B | -6.5% |
| Region I Ilocos | ₱155.46 B | ₱157.45 B | -1.3% |
| Region VII Central Visayas | ₱154.21 B | ₱162.29 B | -5.0% |
| Region X Northern Mindanao | ₱151.01 B | ₱158.02 B | -4.4% |
| Region II Cagayan Valley | ₱145.34 B | ₱149.11 B | -2.5% |
| Region XI Davao | ₱141.45 B | ₱145.78 B | -3.0% |
| Region VI Western Visayas | ₱139.48 B | ₱150.20 B | -7.1% |
| Region IX Zamboanga Peninsula | ₱136.12 B | ₱139.64 B | -2.5% |
| Negros Island Region | ₱125.63 B | ₱129.93 B | -3.3% |
| Region XII SOCCSKSARGEN | ₱120.04 B | ₱124.15 B | -3.3% |
| Region IVB MIMAROPA | ₱113.83 B | ₱116.11 B | -2.0% |
| CARAGA | ₱104.59 B | ₱105.86 B | -1.2% |
| Cordillera Administrative Region | ₱88.35 B | ₱86.93 B | +1.6% |
| BARMM | ₱65.22 B | ₱65.64 B | -0.6% |
16 down, 3 up. The three that rise are Metro Manila, Central Office and the Cordillera. Every other regional book is smaller in the proposal than in the enacted law it is measured against, while the national total grows +5.99 per cent. Money is not leaving the budget. It is being counted somewhere else.
07What this cannot tell you
Four limits ride with every figure on these pages.
The National Expenditure Program is what the Executive submits to Congress. Congress amends it, sometimes heavily, before enacting the General Appropriations Act.
proposal, not appropriation
The region tag follows the implementing office. Work in Albay commissioned by a central office is tagged NCR. This is the most misread field in the dataset.
office, not location
A FY2027 proposal against a FY2026 enacted law is the comparison analysts usually want, but the FY2026 proposal would be the true matching baseline.
proposal against law
An appropriation is legal authority to spend. It isn’t an obligation, a disbursement, or an outcome. Programme codes also get reassigned between years, so a fall can be a transfer rather than a cut.
authority, not outcome
Source and date. Figures come from the BetterGov.PH Philippine Budget Data API, a free public read-only API over Department of Budget and Management publications, retrieved 23 August 2026. The upstream dataset was generated 22 August 2026 from the DBM file NEP-FY2027.csv. Nationally the proposal is ₱7.20 T against ₱6.79 T enacted, across 532,313 line items. Aggregation is machine generated at source, and the source asks that figures be verified against the DBM document before being cited in formal work. See the FY2027 overview and the API documentation. Anything here can be disputed through corrections.
Now dig in
The story stops here. Everything below is the data, sortable and searchable, plus the seven years of enacted budgets that came before this proposal.