The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure:
1. The Department receives its funding from National Treasury, and it is appropriated on an annual basis over the MTEF period, recapitalisation of funds (adding debt or equity) for a department is not allowed in terms of the PFMA. Any additional funds that the Department may require is requested from National Treasury through the budgetary process.
2(a) . Planning for projects is undertaken on all immovable assets on the IAR, allocated and utilised by User Departments.
(b) Budget allocation for renovations as well as capitalisation of new projects is also undertaken on immovable assets captured on the IAR, allocated and utilised by DPWI’s User Departments
The level of planning is being enhanced continuously through the immovable assets register enhancement programme in the recording of components of assets.
3. Since the Portfolio Committee oversight visit to the Gauteng Province in August 2019 the following initiatives have been undertaken by the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) to advance transformation of the built environment: