Main budget expenditure for the 2012/13 financial year was R965.5 billion from an adjusted appropriation of R971.5 billion. This was an improvement in spending performance with only 0.6 per cent underspending in 2012/13 compared to 1.1 per cent underspending in 2011/12. Provincial government underspent its adjusted allocation for 2012/13 by 1.9 per cent while municipalities spent 84.6 per cent of their infrastructure budgets in 2012/13.