(1)Whether any municipalities pledged conditional grants as security for loan financing in each of the past three municipal financial years to date; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, in each specified municipal financial year (a) what (i) was the amount of the loan, (ii) were the terms and conditions, (iii) was the duration of the loan and (iv) was the purpose of each specified loan and (b) was each loan aligned with the purpose of conditional grant funding;
(2) did National Treasury approve each loan financing request; if not, (a) how many of the specified loan financing requests were not approved in each municipal financial year and (b) what were the reasons in each case; if so, what are the relevant details