With reference to the fact that transfers and subsidies were allocated the biggest proportion of the Department's budget, the Committee expressed concern at the ability of the Department to exercise oversight over the transferred payments to entities. The Department recorded a slow expenditure with regard to this economic classification under which 48, 4 per cent or R682,4 million has been transferred at the end of the third quarter against an available budget of R1,4 billion for the 2011/12 financial year.