1 Pre-audited Outcome of Provincial Budgets and Expenditure as at 31 March 2008 (2007/08 Financial Year) [Public Works, Roads and Transport] Select Committee on Finance National Council of Provinces Presented by: Intergovernmental Relations National Treasury 13 August 2008
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Pre-audited Outcome of Provincial Budgets and Expenditure
as at 31 March 2008(2007/08 Financial Year)
[Public Works, Roads and Transport]
Select Committee on Finance
National Council of Provinces
Presented by:
Intergovernmental RelationsNational Treasury
13 August 2008
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National Treasury’s Role
• National Treasury (NT) develops culture of publishing information
• Assessing credibility of provincial budgets• Ensure that each provincial treasury prepares
quarterly reports for its Cabinet or Exco• NT prepares a consolidated quarterly report for
all provinces
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Public Works, Roads and Transport
• Spending at R24.7bn or 98.3% against R25.1bn adjusted budget
• Pre-audited underspending of R418.9m in 8 provinces– Increase of R3bn or 13.8% compared to the previous year– Low rate of spending in FS (89.8%)
• FS – due to overexpenditure in 2006/07
– EC (100%) and KZN (100%) reflects the highest rate of spending in PWRT
• PWRT Personnel spending at R4.5bn or 98.1% (R4.6bn adjusted budget)– Pre-audited underspending of R131.2m in 6 provinces– Pre-audited overspending of R45.1m in 3 provinces
• Programme 2: Roads Infrastructure– Spending at R15.5bn or 97.6% of R15.9bn adjusted budget– Lowest rate of spending in FS (81.2%) and GT (96.7%)– Highest in NW (102.1%)
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Public Works, Roads & Transport
Table: Provincial Expenditure: Public Works, Roads and Transport as at 31 March 2008
• The biggest capital budgets in provinces are in public works, roads and transport departments at 38% or R7.3bn of total adjusted capital budget of R19.1bn
• Spending is at 99% or R7.2bn• Underspending of R219.5m in 4 provinces
– FS at R112.3m, WC - R82.9m• Spending is 25.2% or R1.4bn more than the R5.7bn
spent last year over the same period• The lowest rate of spending is recorded in
FS (84.7%) and LP (85.8%)• EC and GP recorded the highest rates of spending at
104.1% and 111.8% respectively
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Public Works, Roads & Transport: Capital
Table 14: Provincial Capital Expenditure: Public Works, Roads and Transport as at 31 March 2008