The expenditure of 46, 13 per cent against an available budget of R2 billion, means that the Department was the worst performing Department of all the 38 national departments during the period under review. For three successive financial years (2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12) the Department has spent below 70 per cent of its total adjusted budget in the third quarter. There was a declining trend which began from 62, 5 per cent in 2009/10 to 45, 1 per cent in 2010/11 until the recent 46, 1 per cent.