1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act (Act 9 of 2009) provides for, amongst others, a parliamentary procedure to amend Money Bills, thus granting parliamentary committees greater opportunity to influence the allocation of funds to the departments they oversee. Section 5 of the Act compels the National Assembly, through its Committees to submit annual Budgetary Review and Recommendation (BRR) reports on the financial performance of departments accountable to them. The BRR report must be informed by a Committee's interrogation of, amongst others, national departments' estimates of national expenditure, strategic priorities and measurable objectives, National Treasury-published expenditure reports, annual reports and financial statements, and all other oversight activities undertaken in the period under review. Essentially, the BRR report is a committee's assessment of a department's service delivery performance given its available resources, as well as the effectiveness and efficiency with which its programmes are implemented. Committees should adopt their BRR reports after the adoption of the Appropriations Bill and prior the adoption of reports on the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).