Interventions for improvements in outcomes of the education sector include extending the early childhood development programmes, introducing school inspectors and addressing the deployment of excess teachers. In the long term, the integration of the National Development Plan into government's strategic and operational plans will improve coordination across government's policy priorities and budgets. The Minister of Finance tabled the 2013 National Budget together with the Division of Revenue Bill [B2-2013] on 27 February 2013. The Constitution sets out specific criteria for the sharing of nationally raised revenue between national, provincial and local spheres of government. The Division of Revenue Bill classifies schedules from Schedule 1 to 7 in order to divide revenue between the three spheres of government. Table 1 below provides the equitable division of nationally raised revenue among these three spheres of government. Table 1: Equitable Division of Nationally Raised Revenue among the National, Provincial and Local Spheres of Government | | | | | |Column A |Column B | | | | | |Spheres of | | | |Government | | | | |Allocation |Forward Estimates | | | | | | |2013/14 | | | |(R'000) | | | | |2014/2015 |2015/16 | | | |(R'000) |(R'000) | |National |676 920 412 |733 566 388 |791 822 019 | |Provincial |337 572 412 |359 924 199 |383 697 159 | |Local | 40 581 787 | 44 490 145 | 50 207 698 | |TOTAL |1 055 074 611|1 137 980 732|1 225 726 876 |