The Department was allocated R6.2 billion for the 2013/14 financial year, which represents a nominal increase of R1.2 billion (24 per cent) from 2012/13. Transfers and Subsidies account for R5.7 billion (92 per cent) of the available budget. During the first quarter of the 2013/14 financial year, the Department had spent R1.44 billion (23.2 per cent) of its total budget. The Department had planned to spend 24.2 per cent of its budget by the end of the first quarter. The Department spent R98.1 million on operational expenditure; R56.1 million in the Administration programme and R42 million in the remaining programmes. At the end of the first quarter, the Department had transferred R1.3 billion of the total available budget for transfers. The total amount spent is approximately R158 million more than the amount spent during the first quarter of the previous financial year, with the growth being in transfers to Public Corporations and Private Enterprises.