ATC111028: Report on Fourteenth Report of the Committee on Public Accounts on the unauthorised expenditure of the Department of Home Affairs

Public Accounts (SCOPA)

Fourteenth Report of the Committee on Public Accounts on the unauthorised expenditure of the Department of Home Affairs dated 18 October 2011.

 

 

The Committee on Public Accounts considered and heard evidence on the unauthorized expenditure of the Department of Home Affairs in relation to the 2005/06 financial year and reports as follows:

 

1. Background

 

The Committee notes unauthorised expenditure totaling R99 883 000 incurred during the 2005/06 financial year relating to the following:

 

a)        An amount of R53 002 000 was overspent which resulted in unauthorised expenditure; and

b)       An amount of R46 881 000 was earmarked for information technology capital projects to defray current expenditure relating to information technology without prior approval from the National Treasury.

 

2. Recommendation

 

The Committee recommends that the amount of R99 883 000 relating to the 2005/06 financial year be funded through savings from the Department’s budget.

 

 

Report to be considered.