1.2 The report comprises a programme-by-programme summary of key aspects of the Defence budget allocation and strategic objectives, as well as the Committee's observations and recommendations. Observations made in this report should not be separated from those made in previous committee reports. The documents should thus be read along with previous reports, including the Committee's 2012 Budgetary Review and Recommendation (BRR) report. 1.3 The Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act (2009) provides for, amongst others, a parliamentary procedure to amend Money Bills, thus granting parliamentary committees greater opportunity to influence the allocation of funds to the departments they oversee. Section 5 compels the National Assembly, through its Committees to submit Budgetary Review and Recommendation (BRR) reports on the financial performance of departments accountable to them on an annual basis. The BRR report must be informed by a Committee's interrogation of, amongst others, each national department's medium-term estimates of national expenditure, strategic priorities and measurable objectives, National Treasury-published expenditure reports, annual reports and financial statements, as well as observations made during oversight visits. Essentially the BRR report is a committee's assessment of a departments' service delivery performance given its available resources, as well as the effectiveness and efficiency with which its programmes are implemented. Although BRR reports must be published at a specific time in the budget cycle, it is clear that the work that informs the report must be ongoing. The Committee regrets to report that, despite the significance of this process, it is yet be schedule a briefing on the progress made with the implementation of the Committee's recommendations.