Transparency · national budget
FY2020 to FY2026 as Congress actually passed it, ₱4.10 T growing to ₱6.79 T, with the FY2027 proposal alongside for scale. This page is national. The published enacted dataset carries no region dimension at all, so there is no honest Bicol column to put here, and we have not invented one by splitting national figures by population. The regional read is on the FY2027 pages.
The national total
Seven enacted years and one proposal. The budget has grown every single year, 8.8 per cent a year compounded, and the line item count has gone from 593,491 to 761,604.
Enacted, General Appropriations ActProposed, FY2027 National Expenditure Program
Three rows worth stopping on
Most departments drift upward a few per cent a year. These three did not.
DPWH peaked at ₱1.09 T in FY2025, then the FY2026 law set it at ₱530.90 B, a fall of -51.2 per cent. That is the largest single year reversal anywhere in the seven years, and it was enacted while the flood control audit was the dominant story in national politics.
₱1.09 T to ₱530.90 B
DepEd crossed ₱1.02 T in FY2026 from ₱782.17 B the year before, up 29.8 per cent in one step after five years of single digit growth.
+29.8 per cent in one year
Automatic appropriations went from ₱1.20 T to ₱2.30 T, up 92 per cent, and now carry 33.8 per cent of the whole budget. Debt service and the local government share both sit in here, and neither is decided by an annual hearing.
33.8 per cent of FY2026
On the Public Works line. A budget document records what Congress authorised, not why. What it shows is that the authority was cut roughly in half in one year and that the FY2027 proposal puts the department back up nationally while 16 of 17 regional lines fall and the Metro Manila line rises. Our record of what actually got built in Bicol is in flood control projects.
By department, seven years
The 22 largest departments, each with all seven enacted years, and the remaining 16 folded into one row because each is under 20 billion in FY2026. The rows foot to the published national total in every year, and the build fails if they ever stop doing so.
Table scrolls sideways
| Department | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | 2026 vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Appropriations | ₱1.20 T | ₱1.35 T | ₱1.59 T | ₱1.52 T | ₱1.66 T | ₱2.02 T | ₱2.30 T | +13.6% |
| Department of Education (DepEd) | ₱554.21 B | ₱595.07 B | ₱633.32 B | ₱721.79 B | ₱762.10 B | ₱782.17 B | ₱1.02 T | +29.8% |
| Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) | ₱581.67 B | ₱695.67 B | ₱786.60 B | ₱894.17 B | ₱997.88 B | ₱1.09 T | ₱530.90 B | -51.2% |
| Congress of the Philippines | ₱294.49 B | ₱316.87 B | ₱322.63 B | ₱364.58 B | ₱354.06 B | ₱441.50 B | ₱476.44 B | +7.9% |
| Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) | ₱241.57 B | ₱249.31 B | ₱251.27 B | ₱255.27 B | ₱265.51 B | ₱281.96 B | ₱310.47 B | +10.1% |
| Department of National Defense (DND) | ₱192.06 B | ₱205.82 B | ₱220.86 B | ₱204.97 B | ₱242.39 B | ₱275.97 B | ₱310.00 B | +12.3% |
| Department of Health (DOH) | ₱104.49 B | ₱138.89 B | ₱188.36 B | ₱214.46 B | ₱246.75 B | ₱253.36 B | ₱304.59 B | +20.2% |
| Budgetary Support to Government Corporations | ₱197.64 B | ₱158.34 B | ₱180.51 B | ₱193.15 B | ₱198.03 B | ₱137.28 B | ₱274.70 B | +100.1% |
| Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) | ₱164.02 B | ₱176.89 B | ₱205.00 B | ₱199.51 B | ₱248.11 B | ₱217.54 B | ₱270.19 B | +24.2% |
| Department of Agriculture (DA) | ₱64.68 B | ₱71.04 B | ₱71.01 B | ₱101.21 B | ₱114.28 B | ₱125.44 B | ₱186.51 B | +48.7% |
| State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) | ₱77.35 B | ₱90.11 B | ₱108.43 B | ₱111.46 B | ₱132.93 B | ₱127.23 B | ₱144.07 B | +13.2% |
| Department of Transportation (DOTr) | ₱100.65 B | ₱87.90 B | ₱75.83 B | ₱105.96 B | ₱73.89 B | ₱88.00 B | ₱137.85 B | +56.6% |
| Other Executive Offices | ₱61.76 B | ₱67.13 B | ₱47.44 B | ₱50.60 B | ₱64.95 B | ₱65.27 B | ₱82.39 B | +26.2% |
| The Judiciary | ₱41.23 B | ₱45.31 B | ₱46.98 B | ₱54.91 B | ₱60.18 B | ₱64.01 B | ₱70.61 B | +10.3% |
| Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) | ₱17.91 B | ₱37.13 B | ₱51.30 B | ₱47.20 B | ₱61.82 B | ₱51.75 B | ₱61.81 B | +19.4% |
| Department of Justice (DOJ) | ₱23.47 B | ₱24.61 B | ₱26.68 B | ₱30.11 B | ₱38.24 B | ₱42.19 B | ₱45.52 B | +7.9% |
| Department of Finance (DOF) | ₱19.97 B | ₱17.48 B | ₱21.93 B | ₱24.77 B | ₱26.84 B | ₱32.49 B | ₱33.19 B | +2.2% |
| Department of Science and Technology (DOST) | ₱20.52 B | ₱25.19 B | ₱24.27 B | ₱24.83 B | ₱27.22 B | ₱28.99 B | ₱32.12 B | +10.8% |
| Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) | ₱24.37 B | ₱22.62 B | ₱21.92 B | ₱20.86 B | ₱24.83 B | ₱27.85 B | ₱28.91 B | +3.8% |
| Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) | ₱26.44 B | ₱24.58 B | ₱26.47 B | ₱24.33 B | ₱26.39 B | ₱27.29 B | ₱28.27 B | +3.6% |
| Office of the President | ₱8.25 B | ₱8.24 B | ₱8.24 B | ₱9.09 B | ₱10.71 B | ₱15.91 B | ₱28.10 B | +76.7% |
| Commission on Elections (COMELEC) | ₱4.04 B | ₱14.82 B | ₱26.93 B | ₱5.97 B | ₱40.34 B | ₱35.50 B | ₱20.20 B | -43.1% |
| 16 smaller departments and offices | ₱81.65 B | ₱82.23 B | ₱85.39 B | ₱86.95 B | ₱86.01 B | ₱95.44 B | ₱105.16 B | +10.2% |
| Enacted total | ₱4.10 T | ₱4.51 T | ₱5.02 T | ₱5.27 T | ₱5.77 T | ₱6.33 T | ₱6.79 T | +7.4% |
Method
The published GAA dataset carries no region dimension, so a Region V slice of these seven years can’t be built from it. Only the FY2027 proposal is published with a region rollup.
national scope only
The GAA is legal authority to spend for that year. Obligation and disbursement happen after, at lower figures, and are reported separately.
authority, not outturn
Line item counts jump between years as programmes are split, merged and recoded. FY2021 shows fewer items than FY2020 on a larger budget for that reason.
recoding, not shrinkage
Every figure is nominal pesos of its own year. A budget that grows slower than prices is a real terms cut and this table will still show it rising.
nominal pesos
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 enacted series covers FY2020 to FY2026 across 38 departments. The FY2027 figure is the National Expenditure Program, a proposal, and is drawn separately. See the GAA browser and the API documentation. Aggregation is machine generated at source, which asks that figures be verified against the DBM document before formal citation. Anything here can be disputed through corrections.