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Standing Committee on Appropriations
FFC 2024/25 Division of Revenue Annual Submission
5 Sep 2023
The Financial Fiscal Commission briefed the Committee on the division of revenue for the 2024/25 financial year, highlighting that state-owned enterprises posed a risk to the financial well-being of the country’s economy. They also suggested that oversight and monitoring of municipalities needed to be improved.
Committee Members raised questions ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Q1 2023/24 Performance (focus on national departments & SOEs)
29 Aug 2023
National Treasury briefed the Committee in a virtual meeting on the expenditure and financial standing of government departments and state–owned enterprises during the first quarter of the 2023/24 financial year.
It highlighted that although many departments were deviating from their expected expenditure projections, this deviation was better than in ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Oversight Visit Report to Transnet and PRASA
13 Jun 2023
The Committee met to consider and adopt its oversight report to Transnet and Prasa from 27-31 March 2023.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Committee Report
6 Jun 2023
The Committee reviewed its report on the Appropriation Bill, and raised concern about the lack of tracking mechanisms, which hampered their ability to fully conduct their oversight responsibilities. As a result, in its recommendations, the Committee said the Parliamentary Budget Office should avail its services to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: National Treasury (NT) response to public submissions; Preliminary spending outcomes as at the end of Q4; NT update on state-owned companies
30 May 2023
The Standing Committee on Appropriations met virtually with National Treasury for a briefing on its responses to the public submissions on the 2023 Appropriation Bill, and for an update on the state-owned enterprises and the preliminary spending outcomes as at the end of the fourth quarter of the 2022/23 ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: public hearings
26 May 2023
The Standing Committee on Appropriations convened virtually to receive submissions from the public on the 2023 Appropriation Bill.
The Committee heard presentations from Youth Capital (YC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Equal Education (EE) and the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM).
Youth Capital said that the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: DPWI Briefing; with Minister and Deputy Minister
17 May 2023
The Committee convened virtually to be briefed by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) on its budget allocations for the 2023/2024 financial year and the progress the Department has made regarding its targets being met. The Minister and Deputy Minister were in attendance.
The Department reported that, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Department of Health briefing; with Ministry
16 May 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from the National Department of Health on its 2023 Appropriations Bill.
The National Department of Health’s presentation consisted of the preliminary spending outcomes of the 2022/23 financial year; its plan to utilise the R60.1b budget allocation for ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill: Department of Water and Sanitation briefing; with Minister and Deputy Minister
10 May 2023
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Standing Committee on the current state of water and sanitation in the country, and gave an update on the Appropriation Bill.
The Department said they were certain that they would be able to meet most of their targets. The biggest problem ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Briefing on the Appropriations Bill B3-2023: Department of Communication and Digital Technology (DCDT) & SAPO; with Ministry
9 May 2023
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies and the South African Post Office (SAPO) on the Appropriation Bill [B3-2023].
Members heard that the Department had been allocated an adjusted budget of R5.328 billion, which consists of Compensation of Employees totalling R309.9 ...