NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
INTERNAL QUESTION
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN REPLY
20 NOVEMBER 2009
2338. Mr M H Steele (DA) to ask the Minister for the Public Service and
Administration:
(a) What is the content of the proposed Integrity Management Framework
which will deal with conflict of interest amongst public servants, (b)
what measures are proposed to deal with these conflicts of interest,
(c) what are the expected performance outcomes against which the
success of this framework will be measured and (d) officials,
departments or sections are responsible for monitoring the success of
this framework? NW3050E
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REPLY:
The proposed Public Service Integrity Management Framework will
amongst others address gaps that exist in the Financial Disclosure
Framework, the Code of Conduct with respect to Gifts and Benefits,
Remunerative Work outside the Public Service and Post-public
employment.
(b) Some of the proposed measures cover the following areas:
i) The Financial Disclosure System be extended to other officials in
the public service,
ii) Public servants be prohibited from directly or indirectly
soliciting or accepting gifts, hospitality or private benefits of
any value from any private entity that is contracted to the
department to which the public servant is an employee;
iii) Post-public employment restrictions be applied in the public
service; and
iv) Restriction of remunerative work outside the public service.
v) Ethics officers be deployed/assigned in departments to implement
the
(c) The performance outcomes against which the success of this
framework will be measured will be concluded and indicators will be
developed once the framework is finalised.
(d) The comprehensive framework will include an assessment of all
existing policy and legislative framework regulating probity in the
public service by identifying gaps and proposing additional measures
to close the gaps.
Upon finalisation of the Framework, it will be submitted to Cabinet
for approval and detail with regard to its monitoring will be made
known thereafter.