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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report
21 Oct 2016
Documents handed out:
Committee Report on of the Republic of SA’s 2015/16 Annual Report
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted two sets of minutes and a draft report. All the documents are about the Parliament’s ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance & 2017/18 draft budget and annual performance plan
19 Oct 2016
Report of the meeting to follow.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Higher Education funding: Parliamentary Budget Office research findings
18 Oct 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on their Analysis of the Cost of Higher Education in South Africa.
The PBO delegation gave their findings on the issue facing South Africa’s higher education system, noting that the system is heavily weighted, both educationally and ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Fourth Quarter 2015/16 & First Quarter 2016/17 Expenditure Patterns
13 Oct 2016
The Committee met to adopt the Draft Report on the Fourth Quarter Expenditure Patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and for the First Quarter Expenditure Patterns for 2016/17 financial year, and to be briefed by Committee support staff on the submissions to the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education. However, ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
South African Post Office 1 Quarter 2016 performance: hearing
12 Oct 2016
The South African Post Office (SAPO) Chief Executive Officer reported that:
- The analysis of revenue in this period showed stability despite prolonged delay in release of funds. This delay caused 79% overall revenue performance
- Positive cash flows were not generated from operations and under-performance was observed in the ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Monitoring of performance and expenditure on outcomes of National Development Plan: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
12 Oct 2016
The Committee met with the Parliamentary Budgetary Office to be briefed on its monitoring on performance and expenditure on the outcomes of the National Development Plan.
Government has already started the process of aligning the long term plans of departments with the NDP and to identify areas where policy change ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Mandate, Function and Powers of Committee: briefing; Committee Programme
23 Sep 2016
The Committee expressed concern at the absence of the Secretary to Parliament, as an accounting officer, from the meeting to discuss its mandate, functions and powers. This would prevent them from seeking guidance and clarification on the issues involved. Several Members called for the meeting to be postponed, but after ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance: hearing
16 Sep 2016
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on its fourth quarter expenditure patterns for the 2015/16 financial year and the first quarter of 2016/17.
The spending for the 2015/16 financial year had amounted to R1.3 billion, which was 92.5% of the ...
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 ...