MANILA, Philippines?The proposed budget for 2011 should show the details of the lump sum allocation for the public-private partnership (PPP) projects so that it would not be vulnerable to corruption, a lawmaker said.

Anakpawis partylist Representative Rafael Mariano said the public deserve to know how the government will keep the PPP projects going, which is touted to encourage investments from private businesses to spur growth.

A total of P21.7 billion has been allocated ?to create fiscal space for PPPs? in the proposed P1.654 trillion proposed budget for 2011.

The budget for PPPs include P15 billion in ?strategic support services? to the Department of Agriculture, Department of Public Works and Highway and Department of Transportation and Communications, which will each get P5 billion.

Without the specifics as to how this amount will be spent, Mariano noted that Mariano noted that the allocations would be vulnerable to corruption.

?In the agriculture department?s budget, for instance, a P5-billion lump sum amount was allocated for public-private partnership project. It is very vague and absolutely vulnerable to corruption,? he said.

?This is more than five times higher than the still unresolved and controversial P728-million fertilizer fund scam,? Mariano added.

Earlier, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said they hope the investment would be corresponded by P180 billion PPP projects by next year.

Mariano recalled that during the State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III said that the government will not spend even a cent on these public-private partnerships.