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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [ B15-2016]
14 Nov 2016
Documents handed out:
Draft Report of Outstanding Committee on Appropriations on 2016 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B15-2016]
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The Standing Committee on Appropriations adopted the Draft Report on the 2016 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The Democratic Alliance reserved its ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2016 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Human Sciences Research Council briefing
9 Nov 2016
The Committee was addressed by the Human Science Research Council on its observations regarding the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
Debt levels had roughly doubled over the last eight years. The biggest item in spending by government had been the repayment of debt. The reason for that had being the halving ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 Revised Fiscal Framework (MTBPS): Treasury response to public hearings
4 Nov 2016
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance met to receive National Treasury responses to questions raised during the public hearings on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).
Growth Forecasting
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast for global growth had been revised down in its flagship economic forecast since 2012. ...
Finance Standing Committee
2016 MTBPS: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
1 Nov 2016
The PBO presented its MTBPS analysis to the four Committees. It gave members highlights from the Ministers MTBPS speech and some highlights included stabilising debt as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), stimulating growth, increasing revenue growth and creating more government efficiency. PBO gave an outline of reprioritisation to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2016: Minister of Finance and National Treasury briefings
27 Oct 2016
Documents Handed Out:
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: National Treasury presentation [awaited]
The National Treasury and the Minister of Finance briefed the Committee with a full and detailed presentation on the main messages of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). This emphasised the trying economic environment in which the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee report on expenditure patterns: discussion; Committee Programme
25 Oct 2016
The consideration and adoption of the Committee report on expenditure patterns was postponed. There had to be further recommendations from Members, and engagement with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).
Discussion of the Committee programme centered on the proposed study tour. Agreement was reached that the tour had to be undertaken ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
16 Sep 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and the first quarter of 2016/17.
The spending for the 2015/16 financial year had amounted to R1.3 billion, which was 92.5% of the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
15 Sep 2016
Documents Missing: The Jobs Fund: Jobs Fund Portfolio Performance
The Committee met with National Treasury to be briefed on its 2015/16 fourth quarter performance, 2016/17 first quarter performance and the Jobs Fund.
Some of the main contributors to over/under spending in the fourth quarter included:
-payment of capital assets for the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing with the Deputy Minister
14 Sep 2016
The Department of Health reported on Q4 2015/16 spending percentages for its programmes: Comprehensive HIV/AIDS grant spending 99.1%, National Health Insurance (NHI) 90.2%, Health Prof Training and Dev Grant (HPTDG) 100%, National Tertiary Services Grant (NTSG) 99.6% and HIV/AIDS 99.9%, Conditional grants (CG) 99.1%, Indirect grants 95.3%, Goods and services ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Basic Education on its Jan-June 2016 performance, with Deputy Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) reported that past issues on which progress had been made included the delivery of school workbooks, as in recent years delivery had been almost 100%. 55 million schoolbooks had been distributed to 24 000 schools. The number of people who had benefited from mass literacy ...