2. The Committee recommended that the Department should take statistics seriously and present it in an acceptable manner. In this regard, the Committee recommended that where the Departments do not collect certain data that these columns are removed as it would be embarrassing for South Africa to present tables with data that is blank. With that, once the Monitoring and Evaluation strategy has been completed, the Department should have a standard tool for the collection of data to ensure that it is streamlined, relevant and uniformed.