14 mandated institutions. The draft law «On amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the activities of organizations engaged in the protection of the rights of the child”, regulating the expansion of the mandate of the NPM to more than 200 closed institutions, was unanimously approved at the first reading during the meeting of the Majilis in November 2017. Currently, the draft law is under consideration by the Majilis Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It should be noted that the issue of expanding the powers of NPMs was reflected in the concluding observations of the UN Committee against torture on the third Periodic report of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 12, 2014. The observations stressed the need to expand the mandate of NPMs by introducing all places of deprivation of liberty, including children's homes, medical and social institutions for children with disabilities, special and closed CONSOLIDATED REPORT educational institutions. On 12 December 2017, 92 new members of the NPM for 2018 were elected by decision of the members of the Coordinating Council. Due to the lack of the required number of members of the NPM in Atyrau, East Kazakhstan and Mangystau regions an additional recruitment of NPM members was held. As a result of the additional selection 22 participants were elected to regional groups in Atyrau, East Kazakhstan and Mangistau regions. The overall composition of the NPM members in 2018 was updated to 32% in comparison with the previous year. Financial support for the activities of the NPM is provided from the republican budget. The budget funds are used only to reimburse the costs incurred by NPM members for preventive visits and cannot be used for other purposes. In order to save budget funds in 2017, the budget for the financing of NPMs was reduced to 61.3 million tenge. Of these, 59.9 million tenge was spent.