National Treasury reported that the 2014 division of revenue is designed to help provinces and municipalities expand investment in economic infrastructure and services that directly support economic activity. The National Treasury indicated that reductions have been effected across all three spheres though these were mainly in poor performing programmes and were expected to have minimal impact on service delivery. Moreover, the composition of spending improves over the medium term with capital being the fastest growing item in non-interest expenditure while spending on travel, catering and other administrative declines in real terms.