Members questioned how the Secretariat would justify requesting a larger budget as they had under spent during the 2009/10 financial year. The Secretariat noted that under and overspending resulted in many cases because, in that year, as in previous years the budget allocation received from the SAPS was not driven by clear and precise budgeting needs. This was already been addressed and would obviously change when the Secretariat was identified as its own cost centre in 2012/13.