4.3 The Corrections programme provides needs-based correctional sentence plans and interventions based on an assessment of an inmate's security and criminal profile. It targets all elements associated with offending behaviour, and focuses on the offence for which a person is sentenced to correctional supervision, remanded in a correctional centre, or paroled. The programme's allocation increased by 5,5 percent to R1 537, 3 billion. In real terms however the allocation has increased by only 0, 65 percent or R10 million. Accounting for 9, 3 percent of the DCS' total budget; 98 percent of the allocation goes to compensation of employees. Salary increases will result in increased expenditure which will amount to R16 billion by 2013/14.