NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 467
â467 Mr DB Feldman (COPE-GAUTENG) to ask the Minister of Science and
Technology:
1) Whether her department will furnish details relating to its budget
for the funding of science centres; if not, why not; if so, (a) what
is the budget for the (i) 2011-12 financial year and (ii) medium term,
(b) how much of this budget has been spent and (c) what are the
details of the spending that has occurred to date.
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REPLY
a)
i) The budget for science centres in the financial year 2011/12 is R
19, 365 980
ii) The budget for science centres the following financial years
2012/13, and 2013/14 is R26, 000 000 and R29, 000 000,
respectively.
b) In the 2011/12 financial year the total amount which was budgeted for
science centres has been transferred to them.
c) In the 2011/12 financial year the R21 365 980 awarded to science
centres, 4% was spent on capacity building, 6% on their participation
in National Science Week, 34% on their development support grant
including among others exhibit development, and 56% on operational
support through the National Youth Service (NYS) programme.
The table below details the Department of Science and Technologyâsâ
funding for science centres over the period 2010/11 to 2012/13. The
information provided covers questions (a) to (c).
|Medium - Term Budget |Expenditure |
|(R/yr) | |
| |Overall Transferred |Breakdown (%) |
| |(%) | |
|2011/12 | |4% on Capacity building |
| | |6% on National Science Week |
|R21,365 980 | |34% on development support |
| |100 |grants, where 29 science |
| | |centres were awarded grant |
| | |funding for projects |
| | |contributing to the |
| | |objectives of the Youth into |
| | |Science Strategy |
| | |56% on operational support |
| | |through the National Youth |
| | |Service |
|2012/13 | | |
| |Future expenditure |Future expenditure |
|R26 000 000 | | |
|2013/14 | | |
| |Future expenditure |Future expenditure |
|R29 000 000 | | |
| | | |
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