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Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
15 Sep 2016
Documents Missing: The Jobs Fund: Jobs Fund Portfolio Performance
The Committee met with National Treasury to be briefed on its 2015/16 fourth quarter performance, 2016/17 first quarter performance and the Jobs Fund.
Some of the main contributors to over/under spending in the fourth quarter included:
-payment of capital assets for the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Health Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing with the Deputy Minister
14 Sep 2016
The Department of Health reported on Q4 2015/16 spending percentages for its programmes: Comprehensive HIV/AIDS grant spending 99.1%, National Health Insurance (NHI) 90.2%, Health Prof Training and Dev Grant (HPTDG) 100%, National Tertiary Services Grant (NTSG) 99.6% and HIV/AIDS 99.9%, Conditional grants (CG) 99.1%, Indirect grants 95.3%, Goods and services ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Water and Sanitation on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance
14 Sep 2016
The Department focused on the key aspect of the variances between the projections and actual expenditure, as well as the reasons for under-spending the budget. The variances included money not transferred to other institutions due to outstanding documents; unfilled vacant posts; delays in procurement of services and contractors; late receipt ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Basic Education on its Jan-June 2016 performance, with Deputy Minister in attendance
13 Sep 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) reported that past issues on which progress had been made included the delivery of school workbooks, as in recent years delivery had been almost 100%. 55 million schoolbooks had been distributed to 24 000 schools. The number of people who had benefited from mass literacy ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Electricity Generation Technology Choice: briefing by Parliamentary Budget Office
7 Sep 2016
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) provided a presentation on the costs and considerations of electricity generation choices. The briefing by the PBO was very technical looking at the costing and comparison measures utilised to draw assumptions.
Many countries in the world engage in energy planning. Electricity is not like other ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2017/18 Division of Revenue: Financial and Fiscal Commission Submission
6 Sep 2016
The theme of the 2017/18 FFC submission was the intergovernmental fiscal relations system and rural development. The majority of the South African poor were living in rural areas, which lagged behind on economic performance indicators. The rural economy was no longer just a farm economy. The potential of land reform ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Cost & outcomes of Industrial Development initiatives: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
31 Aug 2016
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) briefed the Standing Committee on Appropriations with a report on the costs and outcomes of industrial development initiatives for the period from 1994 to 2015.
The PBO provided an analysis of the government’s commitment to industrial development, the development of policies, and also the development ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
State-Owned Entities: analysis of 4 Quarter 2015/16 and 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance
30 Aug 2016
The Committee researchers briefed the Committee on a list of 12 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and other public entities. Strategic roles and major challenges received attention. Challenges were centered on procurement; expenditure, finance and consequence management; leadership and governance; financial and operational sustainability; human resources, and non-compliance with the Public Finance ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Prioritisation of departments for Committee oversight: briefing by Committee researcher
24 Aug 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations met to deliberate on the Committee Researchers’ Reports on the Prioritisation of departments for oversight by the Committee. The researchers briefing explained key departments for prioritisation by the Committee for 2016
The following issues were highlighted:
Part 1: Strategic contributions in developmental and budgetary indicators
To ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
National Treasury on its 4 Quarter 15/16 & 1 Quarter 16/17 performance
23 Aug 2016
The National Treasury presented on the preliminary revenue and expenditure outcomes for national departments. The main budget deficit amounted to 4.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Departments had spent R699 billion against the final available budget of R706 billion, indicating under-spending of one percent. There had been significant ...