Hon member, can you please take your seat for a second? Hon members, seeing that hon Nel is now actually dealing with the budget, the figures, will you allow me to give him, say, an extra five minutes? [Interjections.] Thank you.
THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Deputy Chairperson, because the budget was set out in a document and circulated to members, what I will do is just to emphasise the provincial dimension of the budget before sitting down.
The budget of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been segmented into different provincial allocations, even though we are a national department. We do have a network of what we call regional offices in each province.
The total budget allocation per region for the 2011-12 financial year is: Gauteng, R523 million; Eastern Cape, R470 million; KwaZulu-Natal, R440 million; Western Cape, R335 million; Limpopo, R297 million; Free State, R242 million; North West, R222 million; Mpumalanga, R186 million; and Northern Cape, R138 million.
Those amounts are determined based on the number of courts in operation, as well as the number of personnel appointed in a particular region.
With that I pause. Thank you. [Applause.]