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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: DBE hearing
23 Nov 2018
The Committee met for a briefing with the Department of Basic Education on the 2018 Adjustments Appropriation Bill, in the presence of the Minister.
The Department expressed its readiness to effectively and efficiently spend any additional allocations as per the 2018 budget adjustments process. There were currently no virements needing ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: Department of Water & Sanitation hearing
22 Nov 2018
The Minister of Water and Sanitation in his overview told the Committee that the DWS has inadequate financial management as many of its senior executives had resigned. DWS had committed to Parliament to have a turnaround plan as soon as possible. However, this has not been finalised as anticipated. The ...
Water and Sanitation
Municipal water debt: Department; COGTA; Treasury; SALGA update with Minister
14 Nov 2018
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) provided details of the municipal debt to water boards, and said an Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) had been established to devise a plan to resolve the outstanding debt in more structured way. The Committee was told that the municipalities owed a total of ...
Finance Standing Committee
2018 MTBPS: Minister of Finance briefing; with Deputy Minister present
25 Oct 2018
2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
MTPBS Speech & Money Bills
The Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations together with the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriation met for the MTBPS (medium-term budget policy statement) briefing with National Treasury in the presence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Audit Outcome 2017/18: Auditor General briefing
10 Oct 2018
A joint meeting between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing by the Auditor-General (AG) on the 2017/18 audit outcomes.
A total of 434 government departments and state-owned enterprises were audited. Only 25% received clean audits compared to last year when ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue: Financial and Fiscal Commission 2019-20 submission
9 Oct 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) on the 2019/18 Division of Revenue.
The briefing focused on the re-engineering of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations System (IGFR); recentralisation; provincial fiscal adjustments mechanisms in times of protracted fiscal constraints, using the health sector as an example; the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department, Land Bank & ARC Quarter 1 performances: hearing; with Minister
14 Sep 2018
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Land Bank and Agricultural Research Council (ARC) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on their first quarter budget expenditure and performance. The Minister was in attendance.
The Department spent R370m from a total budget of R923m for the first quarter ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Quarter 1 performance; Deviation/Expansion requests to Office of Chief Procurement Officer
21 Aug 2018
The National Treasury (NT) told the Committee that in the first quarter of 2018/19, government entities had under-spent their budgets by nearly R10 billion, which was 5.3% of the funds available. The Departments which had contributed the most to this under-spending had been Higher Education and Training (R2 billion), Police ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 National Budget Dialogue
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to consider the draft report on the 2018 National Budget Dialogue, and to approve the minutes of its May meetings and its programme for the third term. Members discussed the inputs from stakeholders, and identified typographical and grammatical errors which they corrected with the Committee staff.
Highlights ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Contract Extension of Parliament Budget Office Director
24 May 2018
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations met to consider and adopt the Report of the Contract Extension of Parliamentary Budget Office Director. Members were taken through processes surrounding this action. The proposal was that the contract of the Director be extended for three months after the 2019 ...