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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill [B3-20]: briefing
12 Mar 2020
In its briefing on the Division of Revenue Bill, National Treasury said that the country’s population had increased by 1 million from 2018 to 2019 bringing it to about 58.8 million. There were 49.1 million people dependent on public healthcare and 13 million learners in schools with 9 million receiving ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Departments 2019/20 Quarter 3 Expenditure Performance: Committee Staff Analysis
11 Mar 2020
Members were briefed by the Committee Staff on the third quarter expenditure performance of national government departments. The research report recommended that four poorly performing departments be called to appear at committee hearings because of significant underspending of projected expenditure. These were the departments of Human Settlements; Agriculture, Forestry and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Departments Quarter 3 performance: DPME briefing
10 Mar 2020
A key issue raised was that the Committee needs to make an assessment of how the budget translates into service delivery, determine what value government receives, and determine what the impact of government spending on the budget’s developmental objectives are. The Department’s presentation lacked necessary information and only spoke to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2020 Budget (Expenditure and Division of Revenue): FFC briefing
4 Mar 2020
2020 Budget Speech
Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), briefed the Committee on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals. It said there had been a contraction in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy, as well as a contraction in fixed asset formation ...
Finance Standing Committee
2020 Budget: Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission briefings
3 Mar 2020
Parliament’s finance and appropriations committees from both houses met jointly to be briefed on the 2020 Budget by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC).
The PBO expressed the view that the macroeconomic approach of the budget was too narrowly focused on ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Pre-2020 budget workshop with National Treasury on budget instruments to be tabled by Minister of Finance
25 Feb 2020
The Committee and National Treasury officials held a pre-2020 budget workshop on the budget instruments to be tabled by the Minister of Finance the following day. The workshop covered the documents tabled by the Minister, particularly the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB) and the Appropriation Bill.
Treasury said any proposed ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Contract Deviations & Expansions 2019/20 Quarter 3: Office of Chief Procurement Officer
19 Feb 2020
The Standing Committee considers the deviations and expansions for the 2019/20 financial year. The report consists of all the deviations and expansions which have either been supported, not supported, conditionally supported or noted by the National Treasury. The acting Chief Procurement Officer, National Treasury explained the concepts and outlined the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 3 Spending Challenges: Treasury report
18 Feb 2020
National Treasury briefed the Committee on 2019/20 Quarter 3 Spending Outcomes for departments. It spoke about expenditure reporting by public entities and the challenges in verifying this.
The overall spending for the Quarter 3 of 2019/20 shows spending of R683 billion, an underspending of R14.4 billion. The largest deviation was ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Overview of Committee work undertaken during 2019
5 Dec 2019
The Standing Committee on Appropriations deliberated on the work undertaken by the Committee in 2019. The Committee Content Adviser took the Committee through the draft report of the recommendations made by the Committee at the previous meeting. It was decided that it was imperative for Members to attach specific timeframes ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: finalisation & committee reports
3 Dec 2019
MTBPS Speech by the Minister of Finance
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
The Standing Committee on Appropriations considered and adopted both the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement Report and the 2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill.
The Committee spoke about the need for the private sector to play an important ...