As required by the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act, No.09 of 2009, the National Treasury tabled the first quarter expenditure report to the Committee on 24 August 2010 for its consideration. This report provided expenditure trends for the end of the first quarter of the 2010/11 financial year. A number of issues that require the attention of the Executive emanated from this report. Some challenges that were noted and reported upon in the previous reports still recur in the 2010/11 first quarter expenditure of government. It should, however, be noted that the Committee has adopted a number of follow-up initiatives in its recent reports to ensure that the issues raised by the Committee are addressed.