As at 31 March 2012, the end of the fourth quarter and the 2011/12 financial year, total expenditure for the Department amounted to R41.196 billion and this represents 99.23 per cent of the total adjusted budget of R41.517 billion. A total of R321 million or 0.77 per cent was under spent in the same period. Although, expenditure as depicted above is in line with benchmarked drawings, the Department experienced faster and slower than expected spending trends in certain budget programmes and economic classification categories due to the finalization of the programme budget structure change within the organization.