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Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017 MTBPS: South African Local Government Association (SALGA) briefing
1 Nov 2017
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) briefed the Joint Committee on the 2017 Medium Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). SALGA noted that economic growth generated the tax revenue that allowed the rollout of housing, water and sanitation, health services, education and many other services that government provided. Growth was, therefore, ...
Finance Standing Committee
2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
31 Oct 2017
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) appeared before the joint committees of Finance and Appropriations (National Assembly and National Council of Provinces) to give a post Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) analysis.
The PBO noted that performance of key macroeconomic variables over the past five years has not been impressive. The ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2017: Minister in the Presidency & Minister of Finance briefing
26 Oct 2017
The Minister in the Presidency together with the Minister of Finance, and National Treasury gave presentations on the 2017 Mandate Paper and the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
The Minister in the Presidency explained that the purpose of the Mandate Paper is to function as a shorter-term instrument of national planning, ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pre-MTBPS briefing by Parliamentary Budget Office
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations together with the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations were briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the pre-Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The briefing was meant to assist Members in identifying focus areas in relation to the MTBPS presentation by ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
DPME on key risk areas to attainment of 2014-2019 MTSF Outcomes
11 Oct 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Committee on the review of identified programmes and spending areas at risk in the execution of budgets. The purpose of the brief was to reflect on key areas of progress towards the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030, implemented through the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
10 Oct 2017
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) made a presentation to the Committee on the integration of the Medium Term Strategic Framework into the government departments’ standard planning processes. The Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) was also encouraged to contribute to the discussion, to ensure cohesion and to suggest possible ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission
10 Oct 2017
The Minister of Economic Development reported on the work by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission (PICC). He pointed out that PICC is the executive’s tool for monitoring the implementation and impact of infrastructural development on the economy. It is a planning and coordinating body. It is neither a funding structure; ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on National Departments Quarter 4 performance
4 Oct 2017
The purpose of the meeting of the Standing Committee on Appropriations was to consider and adopt the Committee’s Report on the Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns of National Departments for the 2016-17 Financial Year.
There was a concern that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs had underspent it allocated funding. One of ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on KZN Oversight Visit; Committee Operational Plan
3 Oct 2017
Documents handed out:
Committee Report on its KwaZulu-Natal oversight visit
Committee Operational Plan
Committee Programme [All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
It is not known where the money for the free education for the poor is going to come from. This came up during the meeting’s discussions. ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on Quarter 1 performance & Integrated Financial Management System
8 Sep 2017
National Treasury and the Integrated Financial Management System briefed the Committee on the 2017/18 quarter one departmental spending outcomes.
National Treasury indicated that the 2017 Appropriation Act allocated R765.3 billion to national departments for the 2017/18 financial year (excluding Parliament). At the end of the first quarter, national departments had ...