2. Legal status of the Third Party Funds. The Committee remains concerned that the legal status of the Third Party Funds is still unresolved. The Committee was told before that there was a need for legislation to clarify the status of these funds to allow the Department to report on them separately; then the Committee was informed that National Treasury had advised the Department that it should establish the Funds as a trading entity. More recently, the Committee was informed that the Department had decided to go ahead with legislation as there had been no further advice from National Treasury. The Committee requests that the Department provide a written report on the current state of affairs regarding the Fund's status by 19 July 2013. Until now the Committee has been unable to facilitate a meeting between the Department and National Treasury to discuss the matter but will engage with the Department on the way forward, once it has assessed the Department's response.