Hon members, I would like to remind you that on 4 December 2019 the House adopted the Rules Committee report which introduced a number of amendments to our rules. Some of the amendments pertain to the sequence of proceedings and Members' Statements. To facilitate sufficient opportunity for Ministers' Responses to Members' Statements, the sequence of proceedings has been amended so that Members' Statements are now at the start of the proceedings on days that they are scheduled by the programming committee.
The Rules Committee further agreed that the number of Ministers' Responses be increased from six to seven and that time allowed for Ministers' Responses be increased from two minutes to three minutes.
With that background, I will now take the first item on the Order Paper which is Members' Statements. Does any member of the ANC wish to make a statement?