In the 2010/11 financial year, the Department of Mineral Resources was allocated a budget of R1.0 billion which is 0.2 per cent of R461 billion which is the main budget. This does not take into account the adjustment. Of the R1.0 billion budget, the Department has managed to spend R249.1 million or 24.2 per cent at the end of the first quarter of the 2010/11 financial year. This is in line with the 25 per cent benchmark which the Department is supposed to spend every quarter. The expenditure in first quarter per programme was as follows: