2.1.1 The DCS received R17,7 billion in the 2012/13 financial year, of which it spent 97,2%. It underspent on all but the Incarceration programme. Most of the under-expenditure was ascribed to delays in the filling of funded posts. In the previous financial year it had underspent by 5,4%, and in 2010/11 by 4,7%. While the improvement in spending between 2011/12 and 2012/13 is noted, it is also noted with concern that the DCS' spending appears to fluctuate unpredictably, and that in the period between 2010/11 and 2012/13 the Department had failed to spend just over R2 billion of what it had been allocated.