The baseline allocation in the Estimates of the National Expenditure amounted to R1.6 billion for the 2012/13 financial year, R1.7 billion for the 2013/14 financial year and R2 billion for the 2014/15 financial year. The plan cited that the lack of funding over the Medium Term Expenditure Framework period implies that the economic statistics programme risks becoming irrelevant to inform economic growth and price stability.