Whether the National Treasury makes a continuous assessment of the national debt service costs on a three-months basis to determine whether the national debt burden is (a) easing progressively, (b)(i) at or (ii) close to where it has been for the past five years or (c) is rising in the form of a new quarter-on-quarter trend; if not, why not; if so, (i) what are the outcomes of these continuous assessments as at 30 September 2012 and (ii)(aa) how can the new developments be interpreted?