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Finance Standing Committee
2015 Budget: Minister of Finance briefing
26 Feb 2015
The Minister of Finance and a team of senior delegates from the National Treasury presented a summary of the presentation of the 2015 Budget to the joint meeting of the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations and the Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations. Members kept their questions short and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Cooperative Governance & Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency on progress of support & interventions aimed at improving spending of grants & service delivery at local government level
24 Feb 2015
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (MISA) briefed the Standing Committee on Appropriations on the progress of support and interventions aimed at improving the spending of grants and service delivery at the local government level.
The presentation focused on the expenditure ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on 2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement & Adjustments Appropriation Bill: adoption
19 Nov 2014
The Committee adopted the Committee Reports on 2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement & Adjustments Appropriation Bill. It discussed its 2015 First Term programme which would be dominated by hearings on the 2015/16 Budget.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on 2014 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement & Adjustments Appropriation Bill
18 Nov 2014
The Committee Report on the 2014 Adjustments Appropriation Bill, noted that National Treasury, as well as two departments affected by these adjustments, the Departments of Tourism and Economic Development, had briefed the Committee on the Bill. The Department of Sports and Recreation was asked to furnish reasons for its requested ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Economic Development Department on its underspending & virements in 2014 Adjustments Appropriation: hearing
12 Nov 2014
The Economic Development Department (EDD) explained its contravention of the 8% limit on virements by 48% and by 54% in two of its programmes. It noted that Treasury had to be told within seven days about virements. The EDD explained that after the election in May 2014, thes new administration ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Tourism on its underspending and virements in 2014 Adjustments Appropriation: hearing
11 Nov 2014
The Department of Tourism took the Standing Committee through its expenditure performance for its various programmes as at 30 September 2014. It explained that the government limit of 8% for virements was exceeded with the shifting of R6.5 million from the programme of International Tourism which has rather a small ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Status & effectiveness of student funding: DHET ; NSFAS, HESA, FFC, HSRC & Stats SA briefings
21 Oct 2014
The briefing by the Department of Higher Education indicated that NSFAS funding fell short of demand. Some universities spread smaller awards to a larger number of students, a practice called “top slicing”. The cost to family and state of higher education had escalated over the years. The cost of higher ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Financial and Fiscal Commission 20th Anniversary Conference
17 Sep 2014
Summary to follow
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health on 1st Quarter Performance; Department of Cooperative Governance on Municipal Infrastructure Grant, Community Work Programme & 1st Quarter Performance
10 Sep 2014
The Department of Health (DoH) briefed the Standing Committee and Members of the Health Portfolio Committee and the Chairperson on expenditure for the first quarter. The Committees were told that there was slow spending on the National Health Insurance (NHI) grant. Major contributors to underspending of conditional grants were the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Transport on 1st Quarter Expenditure Performance, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2014
The Select Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Transport (DOT) on its first quarter expenditure patterns for the 2014/15 financial year. Details were given of the expenditure, broken down by programme and by economic classification. The Department had a total budget for the year of R48.727 billion, ...