Chairperson, the answer is yes.
At the moment, as the Department of Public Service and Administration, we are working on consolidating statistics to determine the exact number of public servants who comply with the requirement of wearing name tags. In order to get the exact number of public servants who are wearing the name tags, one needs to be in their areas. Therefore, we have requested the leadership and the executive authorities to provide information about their departments. We in the Department of Public Service and Administration have almost 100% compliance rate on the issue of wearing name tags. We are almost there because there are some newly recruited employees who do not have name tags since the process of acquiring them takes time.
I have sent out a circular to all my colleagues - the executive authority - to make sure that they provide information on compliance in this regard. As soon as this is available we'll then share it with you. Thank you very much.
Progress made with regard to support for policy implementation and reviewing of policies where necessary
61. Mr M W Makhubela (Cope) asked the Minister for the Public Service and Administration:
Whether any progress has been made in respect of (a) support for policy implementation and (b) reviewing of policies where necessary; if not, why not; if so, (i) what progress and (ii) what are the further relevant details? CO193E