With respect to the fourth quarter expenditure report, the National Treasury reported that, overall, provinces had spent more that 74 per cent (R518.7 million) of their allocated budget. The Province of Limpopo was the lowest performer, having spent only R49.7 million out of R82.6 million allocated to it in the 2012/13 financial year. According to National Treasury, at the end of the fourth quarter in the 2012/13 financial year the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal over-spent their budgets by R700 000 and R14 000 respectively. The National Treasury further reported that a total of R97.1 million (15.7 per cent) was under-spent by six provinces. The provinces that under-spent as at the end of the fourth quarter of the 2012/13 financial year were: Eastern Cape by R21.978 million; Free State by R4.293 million; Limpopo by R32.971 million; Mpumalanga by R5.722 million; Northern Cape by R10.352 million and North West by R21.797 million.