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NCOP Appropriations
Human Settlements Grant 2017/18 Quarter 4 performance: hearing, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2018
The Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) allocation for the 2017/18 financial year amounted to R19.9 billion, which was a R1.6 billion increase over the previous year. The grant was allocated through the HSDG allocation formula approved by the Human Settlements Ministers and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC) and National Treasury. ...
NCOP Finance
Western Cape 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury
5 Jun 2018
Documents handed out: Committee research document (not available to the public)
National Treasury reported that there were fiscal risks in education and health, and high accruals. Skills capacity had to improve for project execution, along with improved planning skills to reduce underspending, especially with conditional grants. Total underspending amounted to ...
Ad Hoc Committee on North West Intervention
Election of Chairperson; Mandate of Committee
31 May 2018
President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Inter-Ministerial Task Team on North-West
A new ad hoc committee was established to inquire on the intervention in North West (NW) Provincial Government. Members of the Committee met to elect Chairperson of the Committee. Mr De Beer was elected as the new chairperson of the ...
NCOP Appropriations
School Sanitation Audit; Education Infrastructure expenditure; with Minister
30 May 2018
The School Sanitation Audit was presented as a work in progress. This was in response to the President's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities after the March 2018 drowning of Lumka Mketwa in a pit toilet at an Eastern Cape primary school. In 2014 Michael Kompane also lost ...
NCOP Finance
Northern Cape & Limpopo 2017/18 expenditure outcomes
29 May 2018
Documents handed out: Committee Research unit: Comment on expenditure outcomes (to Members only)
National Treasury reported that the major risk in the Limpopo Department of Health (DoH) was continually high accruals. In Education there was a high attrition rate of educators, but still a problem with excess educators, and ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Technical Team briefing; Committee Programme
24 May 2018
The Ad Hoc Committee on Funding of Political Parties met briefly to approve the programme for processing the Political Party Funding Bill. The programme included two half-days for oral submissions on the Bill. The intention was to have a final meeting on 27 June 2018 to adopt the Bill, but ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on Contract Extension of Parliament Budget Office Director
24 May 2018
The Standing and Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations met to consider and adopt the Report of the Contract Extension of Parliamentary Budget Office Director. Members were taken through processes surrounding this action. The proposal was that the contract of the Director be extended for three months after the 2019 ...
NCOP Appropriations
‘Back to Basics’ and support provided to municipalities: COGTA, Treasury, Salga and FFC workshop
23 May 2018
There were four briefings to the Select Committee on Appropriations on the progress made with the ‘Back to Basics’ programme, and the support provided to municipalities. The presentations were made by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), the National Treasury (NT), the South African Local Government Association ...
Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties NCOP
Election of Chairperson; Mandate of Committee
16 May 2018
Members of the NCOP Ad Hoc Committee on Funding of Represented Political Parties met to elect a Chairperson and to discuss the mandate of the Committee. Members understood the importance of taking the process forward but were concerned about the number of meetings and sittings that they were currently attending ...
NCOP Appropriations
Early Childhood Development Grant Quarter 4 performance: hearing
16 May 2018
The Committee was briefed by the National Treasury and the National Department of Social Development, and received submissions from the Eastern Cape, the North West Province and the Northern Cape, on the Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant.
National Treasury (NT) focused on the purposes of the grant, whether those purposes ...