(1) With regard to the provision of services to the 23 municipalities with the greatest number of backlogs referred to in President Jacob G Zuma’s State of the Nation Address on 13 February 2014, (a) which municipalities has been identified as such and (b) what criteria was used to determine that these municipalities were the ones with the greatest number of backlogs; (2) for each municipality, what (a) was the backlog as at 13 February 2014, (b) has been done to assist these municipalities and (c) is the current backlog?