4.7 The Facilities programme provides physical infrastructure that supports safe and secure custody, humane conditions, and corrective services, care, development and general administration. Its allocation increased by 18, 11 percent i.e. R403 million in 2011/12 and amounts to 12 percent of the DCS' total budget. The bulk of the allocation is spent on the payment of capital assets including the construction of new correctional facilities and the upgrading of existing ones; only 4,6 percent is spent on compensation of employees.