According to the national Department of Public Works, provinces had spent 78.0 per cent of the Grant allocation during the 2008/09 financial year. In 2009 provinces had been allowed to use about 4 per cent of the Grant for capacity building within the departments to manage the Grant. In the 2009/10 financial year there had been an improvement of 1.0 per cent, bringing the expenditure to 79.0 per cent. The Department had expected a greater improvement in the 2010/11 financial year, and if one looked at the expenditure against the payment schedule for 2010/11, the provinces had spent almost 84 per cent of the budget. However, as the figure was influenced by the roll-overs received by provinces, the actual expenditure was only 78 per cent.