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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefing
28 Oct 2015
The meeting was for the presentation by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The MTBPS was formulated against the backdrop of an economy that was vulnerable to negative domestic and external factors. Low, fragile growth was making it difficult to tackle ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill [B27-2015]; Adjustment Appropriation Bill [B28-2015]: briefing
23 Oct 2015
Awaited documents: Draft Report on 2015 Adjustment Budget; Draft Report on 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill[available once published on the ATC]
National Treasury met with both the Standing Committee and the Select Committee on Appropriations to brief them on the Adjustment Budget for 2015 as contained in the two Bills. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) 2015: Minister of Finance briefing
22 Oct 2015
The Minister of Finance and a delegation from the National Treasury met with a joint committee comprising the Standing Committee on Finance, the Select Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Appropriations. The National Treasury presented the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
The Jobs Fund: Finance Deputy Minister & National Treasury progress report
22 Sep 2015
National Treasury gave the Committee a progress report on the activities of the Jobs Fund. It gave a brief overview on the level of unemployment in the country and how it was being addressed. It then spoke to the mandate of the Fund and its objectives, how disbursement was managed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Human Settlements 1st Quarter 2015/2016 performance: hearings
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Human Settlement (DHS) gave the Standing Committee on Appropriations details of its expenditure and performance against its targets for 2014/15 and for the first quarter of the current financial year.
The allocation for the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDGs) for the previous year had been R17 billion. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
1st Quarter 2015/16 expenditure patterns of national departments: National Treasury briefing
18 Aug 2015
National Treasury said that government expenditure in the first quarter had amounted to R270.4bn, against a budget estimate of R233.6bn, resulting in a deficit of R36.8 bn. 44% of total expenditure (R119.3bn) had been for direct charges against the National Revenue Fund, and included R95.7bn transferred to the provinces under ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Reports on Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] & Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]
23 Jun 2015
The Committee adopted the draft report of the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill, which sought to appropriate an additional amount of money for the requirements of the Department of Public Enterprises to increase the State’s equity investment in Eskom Holdings SOC Limited. The Bill provided for an amount of R23 billion ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] and Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: public hearings
19 Jun 2015
The Committee heard three submissions on the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill and Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) presentation set out the state of South Africa's renewable energy sector, and its contributions to the power supply in 2014. The CSIR's analysis ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] & Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission inputs
17 Jun 2015
The committee was briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015] and the Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015].
The PBO submission was divided into four parts: (i) a background to state-owned enterprise (SOE) financing, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B16-2015]; Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill [B17-2015]: Department of Public Enterprises & Eskom briefing
12 Jun 2015
The Committee had asked for presentations by the Department of Public Enterprises and Eskom as part of its preparation for consideration of the Bills under which government would be making special appropriations to Eskom; the Committee had received prior presentations on the Bills themselves. The Department of Public Enterprises firstly ...