VOTE 15: BASIC EDUCATION DBE Presentation to the Standing Committee on Appropriations 03 September 2014

VOTE 15: BASIC EDUCATION FIRST QUARTER EXPENDITURE

INTRODUCTION The total Appropriated budget of the Department for the 2014/15 financial year amounts to R million The majority of the budget (R million) is allocated to transfer payments as follows: –Conditional Grants: R million –Transfers to Public Entities: R million –Other Transfers: R million The remainder of the budget (R million) is allocated to the following: –Compensation of Employees: R million –Examiners and Moderators: R million –Earmarked Funds: R million –Office Accommodation: R million –Specifically and Exclusively Appropriated: R million –Departmental Operations: R million –Departmental Projects: R million

INTRODUCTION (cont.) The total actual expenditure of the Department for the 2014/15 financial year first quarter amounts to R million The majority of the expenditure (R million) consists of transfer payments as follows: –Conditional Grants: R million –Transfers to Public Entities: R million –Other Transfers: R million The remainder of the expenditure (R million) consists of the following: –Compensation of Employees: R million –Examiners and Moderators: R4.070 million –Earmarked Funds: R million –Office Accommodation : R million –Specifically and Exclusively Appropriated: R million –Departmental Operations: R million –Departmental Projects: R million

ALLOCATION AGAINST ACTUAL EXPENDITURE PER PROGRAMME FOR THE 2014/15 FINANCIAL YEAR PROGRAMMES 2014/15 Expenditure as % of Adjusted Appropriation FINAL APROPRIATION ACTUAL EXPENDITURE VARIANCE R’000 Administration % Curriculum Policy, Support and Monitoring % Teachers, Education Human Resources Development and Institutional Development % Planning, Information and Assessment % Educational Enrichment Services % Total %

ALLOCATION AGAINST ACTUAL EXPENDITURE PER ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION FOR THE 2014/15 FINANCIAL YEAR PROGRAMMES 2014/15 Expenditure as % of Adjusted Appropriation FINAL APROPRIATION ACTUAL EXPENDITURE VARIANCE R’000 Compensation of Employees % Goods and Services % Transfers and Subsidies % Payment for Capital Assets % Total %

ALLOCATION OVER THE 2014/15 FINANCIAL YEAR SERVICE 2014/15 Expenditure as % of Adjusted Appropriation FINAL APPROPRIATION ACTUAL EXPENDITURE VARIANCE R’000 Compensation of Employees % Examiners and Moderators % Transfers to Public Entities % Other Transfers % Conditional Grants % Schools Infrastructure Backlogs Indirect Grant % Earmarked Funds % Departmental Operations % Office Accommodation % Projects % Total %

DETAILS OF EARMARKED ALLOCATIONS/TRANSFERS OVER THE 2014/15 FINANCIAL YEAR SERVICE Expenditure as % of Adjusted Appropriation FINAL APPROPRIATION ACTUAL EXPENDITURE VARIANCE R’000 Earmarked Funds: % Kha Ri Gude Literacy Project % EPWP: Kha Ri Gude % Workbooks % IQMS % NEEDU % NSNP % National Assessment % Conditional Grants: % Education Infrastructure % National Schools Nutrition Programme % HIV and AIDS (Life Skills Education) % Dinaledi Schools % Occupation Specific Dispensation for Therapists (OSD) % Technical Secondary Schools Recapitalisation %

DETAILS OF EARMARKED ALLOCATIONS/TRANSFERS OVER THE 2014/15 FINANCIAL YEAR SERVICE Expenditure as % of Adjusted Appropriation FINAL APPROPRIATI ON ACTUAL EXPENDITU RE VARIANCE R’000 Transfers to Public Entities % NSFAS: Fundza Lushaka Bursaries % Umalusi % Other Transfers % ETDP SETA % UNESCO Membership Fees % ADEA % Childline South Africa % Guidance Counseling & Youth Development Centre: Malawi % Households % National Education Collaboration Framework %

COST CONTAINMENT MEASURES ALL employees/officials can only rent a group/class B vehicle (or equivalent or lower); Domestic hotel accommodation may NOT exceed R (including dinner, bed, breakfast and parking); ALL employees/officials can only book economy class tickets for domestic flights (Ministers and DG (or equivalent ranks) can fly business class); Only Ministers, DG and DDGs (or equivalent ranks) can fly business class for overseas trips (flights exceeding 5 hours); The number of employees/officials travelling by air to other centres (for example regional or district offices) to attend an official engagement on the SAME matter is limited to only three (3). This includes employees/officials travelling to Parliament. Only the DG can approve deviation from this instruction in advance; Trips by vehicles must be optimised to reduce costs, for example, officials travelling for the same purpose to the same destination are encouraged to travel together;

COST CONTAINMENT MEASURES No catering for internal meetings unless approved by the Accounting Officer; Usage of the Departmental venues and facilities as far as possible; Management of telephones; Reduction of outsourced services and consultation costs; and No year end functions are paid for from departmental budget.

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