1. Introduction 1.1 Background The Select Committee on Appropriations (the Committee) invited identified provincial departments of health, who were either under-spending or over- spending on the Comprehensive HIV and AIDS, Hospital Revitalisation, and Forensic Pathology Grants, to come and make a presentation on their third quarter spending for the 2009/10 financial year. The statistics on spending patterns were published by the National Treasury in March 2010.