The Department provided a submission made to Treasury for additional funding for selected unfunded or insufficiently funded priorities and the allocations received from Treasury, including a cut to the baseline allocation of the Department, over the MTEF period. The Portfolio Committee noted with concern the cuts effected over the MTEF to the Department's baseline allocation in spite of the Department's motivated submission to Treasury on the consequences to delivery of such cuts and the measures already taken over the past three years to reprioritise the budget and meet the capacity requirements to deliver against its regulatory mandates. The Portfolio Committee noted with appreciation that the Department did not introduce any cuts to its transfer payments to the Entities.