Labour Policy and Labour Market Programme: Programme 4 was allocated a total budget of R541.7 million in 2009/10 financial year and the Department has also managed to spend R536 million or 99 per cent. According to the National Treasury, the under expenditure attributed to unspent R5.3 million due to the delays in the tender process for the Research Monitoring and Evaluation Agenda. The Department has applied for roll-overs in this regard. Part of this under expenditure, was the slower than expected expenditure on Membership fees for International Organisations which was budgeted R9.2 million and the Department only spent R8.6 million at the end of the financial year. To this end it was noted that an amount of R40.7 million was also shifted from other programmes towards this programme as an additional budget in the same period in this programme.