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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
Department of Energy Quarter 1 performance: hearing
12 Sep 2018
The Department of Energy(DoE) presented its first quarter expenditure report for the current financial year, and said it had been allocated an annual budget of R7.45 billion, of which R617 million was for the operation of the Department. The balance was allocated to transfer payments which went to public entities ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Higher Education and Training Quarter 1 performance
7 Sep 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) on its first quarter expenditure report for the 2018-19 financial year.
The 2018/19 annual performance plan (APP) had a total of 110 targets, of which 75 pertained to the direct outputs by the Department, ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 1 performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Sep 2018
This was a joint meeting attended by Members of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation and the Standing Committee on Appropriations. The only topic on the agenda was the presentation on the first quarter performance report by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), which contained information regarding budget ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Defence facilities in Bloemfontein: Defence, Public Works, Health, Treasury on challenges; with Ministers
4 Sep 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received briefings from the Departments of Defence, Public Works, Health and National Treasury on the infrastructure refurbishment and maintenance challenges experienced at the Department of Defence facilities in Bloemfontein. The three departmental delegations, accompanied by their Ministers, were tasked with finding a lasting situation to ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations and Expansions: Office of Chief Procurement Officer briefing
28 Aug 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer in National Treasury gave a presentation outline which focused on the deviations and expansions requests made from April to June 2018 in organs of state, deviation and expansion trends, deviations supported/not supported, expansions supported/not supported, where the fault lines are and what Treasury ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 performance 2018/19 of departments
24 Aug 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from Parliamentary Committee Researchers on the analysis of the First Quarter Expenditure Report for the 2018/19 financial year. Most of the departments’ expenditure reports indicated either overspending or under-spending of the funds allocated to them.
There were numerous vacant positions in most ...
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 ...