Chair, our primary role in leading government business in Parliament involves the following key responsibilities :Monitoring the affairs of the National Executive in Parliament, ensuring programming of parliamentary business initiated by the National Executive within the time allocated for that purpose, ensuring that cabinet members attend their parliamentary responsibility, performing any other function provided for by the joint rules or a resolution of the National Assembly or NCOP or resolutions adopted in both Houses. In this regard we constantly remind members of the executive to prioritise their parliamentary responsibilities, including responding to parliamentary questions timeously, both oral and written. Furthermore as leader of government business in Parliament, we are required to present in every cabinet meeting a status report of all outstanding written replies in both Houses of Parliament and the roster of attendance of all ministers and deputy ministers.

According to the latest, leader of government business report that was presented to cabinet on 30 October 2019. The Minister of Public Enterprises was asked a total of five written questions from the NCOP and all of them have since been responded to. We have also been advised that in the Fifth Parliament, Fifth administration, the

Minister received a total of 54 questions from the EFF of which out of the 54, 53 were answered and only one question remained unanswered or it lapsed. It is against this backdrop that we equally encouraged all members of Executive to fulfil their obligation as imposed upon them by the constitution and the joint rules of Parliament by not only responding to parliamentary questions but through participation in all legislative processes and appearing before relevant committees to give effect to their accountability role. Thank you very much.