As illustrated under Table 1, the budget allocation of R 606,104,000 for the programme decreased significantly by 25% in real terms between the years 2010/11 to 2011/12, a trend that the Committee had noted over the past two years. Although the committee welcomed the high attention provided to corporate services, it remained concerned about the impact that the overall decline in allocations for administration would have on the crucial issues such as an objective to provide efficient and effective human resource management practices; for example, reduction of vacancy rate, performance monitoring and evaluation, and corporate communication services. The Committee noted the critical elements identified under this programme, namely risk management, ensuring effective and efficient financial services that would result reduction on irregular, fruitless and wastes expenditure and losses through criminal conduct.