The National Treasury reported that the adjusted budget for the third quarter of the 2009/10 financial year was R461 million and the total projected outcome was R444 million. The National Treasury added that the provincial departments of arts and culture had spent R281 million (61 %) at the end of the third quarter. Only the Northern Cape's Department of Arts and Culture had a projected over-spending of R9 million. The National Treasury further reported on two provincial departments of arts and culture that had a projected under-spending totalling R26.7 million (that is, R25.3 million for the Eastern Cape and R1.4 million for Gauteng).