After considering the requests of all departments, the budgetary allocation for each department is combined in the Annual Budget Proposal, which is then considered by the Council of Ministers. The cabinet usually approves the Annual Budget Proposal in accord with the input from the Bureau of the Budget. Simultaneously, the cabinet also determines the criteria for adjusting allotments in the budget (Ruamporn n.d. (b), 14). Ministries are then notified about their budgets and, although ministers can adjust details, actual alterations of total budgets tend to be modest