Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's spokeswoman said on Tuesday that President Noynoy Aquino's State of the Nation Address (SONA) did not clarify which figures he was citing when he said only P100 billion remains in the annual budget.

Elena Bautista-Horn said Mr. Aquino's figures are different from the official figures on government expenditures from January to June of this year, which were released by the Bureau of Treasury, the agency that records the actual spending of the national government.

The Bureau of Treasury released the official figures of the government's actual disbursements from the national budget last July 21, 2010 when it was already under Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima.

"From January to June 2010, the total disbursements amounted to P788.8 billion — 13% higher than the comparable disbursements in 2009. Excluding interest payments, the total disbursements increased by 16%. Actual disbursements in June amounted to P126.7 billion," the bureau's statement said.

Horn said Mr. Aquino should clarify how he arrived at the figures that only P100 billion in the national budget are available for his government for the remainder of the year, because the official figures indicate that about 49 percent of the P1.54 trillion national budget remains unspent.

The Liberal Party, which controls the House of Representatives, has also offered to give a supplemental budget to Mr. Aquino's administration this year, though it is not yet clear whether the national budget had indeed been depleted.

"He said he would give more details aside from what he had already announced to the press even before he delivered the SONA, but he said nothing new," Horn said.

Horn also disputed Mr. Aquino's allegations that P105 million in calamity funds were released for the 2nd district of Pampanga, which is now represented in Congress by Mrs. Arroyo.

Horn said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has confirmed that no calamity funds were ever released to the 2nd district of Pampanga this year, as attested to by six mayors of the municipalities in the district.