The budget for the first half of 2017 revealed that 12.3 billion riyals have been spent so far in the housing and transportation sectors out of the approved budget of 52 billion riyals.

Assistant Minister of Finance for Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Finance Hindi Al-Suhaimi explained that separate items are allocated to the Ministry of Housing in the budget, including in the basic equipment and transportation sector, indicating that this includes the transportation and housing sectors, noting that disbursement continues and added that the disbursement of the budget continues to the last day of the year and there is no specific date to stop disbursement: 20.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #222222;">.

The Ministry of Finance announced yesterday the performance report of the state's general budget at the end of the first half of 2017, and the data showed a deficit in the first half 2017 budget of 72.7 billion riyals, where revenues reached 308 billion riyals and expenses 380.7 billion riyals.