Hon Deputy Speaker, the hon Dudley is quite correct; that is exactly the point. The point that she is making when she says official data does not exist and, therefore, formulating policy becomes a problem, is exactly the challenge we are faced with in the department. That is why we have put together a national reference group which includes farmers and intellectuals - that's commercial and emerging farmers - and all of them to sit with us and discuss exactly that point because we have got various databases which are different in content. So, we want to have one database for the country so that we can formulate policy properly. That is the problem.
Particulars regarding applications for special pensions
127. Mr D D van Rooyen (ANC) asked the Minister of Finance:
(a) How many applications for special pensions have his department received since 1 April 2011, (b) how many had been processed as at the latest specified date for which information is available and (c)(i) what challenges have his office encountered in this regard and (ii) in which areas? NO2451E