The PoL reported that the provincial Government of Limpopo through Executive Council decision number 59 of 2001, decided that payments of rent, water, electricity and rates be paid for by individual departments for the buildings they occupied. Therefore, the PoL said that, since 2001, the National Department of Public Works did not pay for rates to municipalities on land parcels where respective provincial departments resided. The National Treasury said that the National Department of Public Works only paid for rates to municipalities on state buildings jointly occupied by provincial departments and where the provincial department of Public Works wholly occupied the building.