Chairperson, having listened carefully yesterday to the hon Thulani Nxesi's rather theatrical advice to opposition parties about how we should conduct ourselves in relation to performance management and evaluation, I'd like to do just that today. I want to ascertain whether the ANC really wants to or means it when it says: "Together we can do more."
Hon Minister, I'd like to state a couple of facts and ask you a question. There are a number of government departments that continually fail to submit reports or indicators to the public that are related to their performance, despite their being obligated to do so. Examples of this are the Department of Health that routinely fails to release the HIV-prevalence antenatal survey, as well as your own Ministry that has failed to release the report on the Presidency's development indicator's mid-term review. In light of the statement that you made yesterday in your Green Paper that "there would be enhanced citizen oversight, through an increased publication of outcomes data", I'd like to ask you: Will your Ministry require government departments to release reports and indicators related to their performances on a more regular basis; and, most importantly, whether the Department of Police will be required to release crime statistics on a more regular basis? If not, why not?