4.3.4 Mineral Policy and Promotion: Programme 4 was allocated a total budget of R429.2 million in the 2010/11 financial year. The Department managed to spend about R106.7 million or 24.9 per cent. The spending was reported to be 18 per cent below the projections for the quarter and this was due to a technical challenge with the contracts that the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) signed with the SSME and for Assistance to mines where the administrative processes were not yet finalised, therefore the funds could not be transferred. This appears to be a recurring problem since an amount of R12 million reserved for assistance to mines could not be transferred in the last financial year due to administrative problems.