By the end of the fourth quarter of the 2012/13 financial year, the Department had spent R5 billion (99.5 per cent) of its total budget. Underspending on the total budget amounted to R26.3 million. This was mainly due to slow spending on transfer payments in the Human Capital and Knowledge Systems programme, specifically to Research and Development Infrastructure for the recapitalisation of the Centre of Proteomic and Genomic Research.