Question NW4083 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Smalle, Mr JF to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(1)      Whether she is responsible for monitoring municipal budgets; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what was the (a) expenditure and (b) percentage of the operational budget spent by each municipality on water and sanitation infrastructure maintenance and (c) what is the current infrastructural backlog for each municipality; (2) whether she is responsible for accounting for water losses through leaks of municipal infrastructure; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what is the (a) current volume of water losses from leaks per municipality; (b) total number of grant funding framework reports submitted for (i) water and sanitation, (ii) electricity, (iii) roads and storm water, (iv) roads provision for each in the past two financial years? NW5363E