The Committee recommends that the Department looks into the following: . Follow up on the R2.7 billion allocated to provincial departments of education in the 2008/9 financial year; . To ascertain that the money is allocated to the relevant recipient FETs by the provincial departments; . Follow up on the implementation of the school nutrition programme at secondary schools and to establish norms and standard in respect of the feeding mechanisms to ensure uniformity across the provinces; . To investigate the reasons for poor spending across the provinces The National Treasury was requested to assist in these matters.