MEC Phosa announces Mpumalanga adjustment allocations for 2010
26 November 2010
Mpumalanga MEC for Finance, YN Phosa, today tabled the 2010 Adjustment Appropriation amounting to R26 billion 783 million 604 thousand to the legislature.
The total adjustment represents an increase of 2.6 per cent compared to the main appropriation of R26 billion 100 million 585 thousand that MEC Phosa tabled in March 2010.
The province received R299 million 689 thousand of R3.84 billion to cover the cost of the salary increases for public servants. This adjustment budgets provide for the difference between the 7.5 per cent increase and 5.3 per cent an additional R300 housing allowance in accordance with the public sector salary-increase agreement.
Revised budget allocations for votes are as follows:
- Office of the Premier: increases from R158 million 728 thousand to R166 million 412 thousand.
- Provincial Legislature: increases from R169 million 655 thousand to R222 million 754 thousand.
- Finance: decreases from R232 million 773 thousand to R230 million 764 thousand.
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs: remains at R404 million 93 thousand.
- Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Administration: increases from R737 million 936 thousand to R774 million 536 thousand.
- Economic Development, Environment and Tourism: increases by R58 million 713 thousand from R643 million to R701 million 713 thousand.
- Education: increases by R431 million 620 thousand from R11 billion, 530 million 252 thousand to R11 billion, 961 million 872 thousand.
- Public Works, Roads and Transport: decreases from R3 billion 330 million 801 thousand to R3 billion 161 million 323 thousand.
- Safety, Security and Liaison: remains at R111 million 438 thousand.
- Health: increases by R169 million 111 thousand from R6 billion 420 million and 715 thousand to R6 billion 589 million 826 thousand.
- Culture, Sports and Recreation: increases by R14 million 770 thousand from R282 million 253 thousand to R297 million 23 thousand.
- Social Development: stays at R881 million 447 thousand.
- Human Settlements: increases by R71 million 460 thousand from R1 billion 197 million 494 thousand to R1 billion, 268 million 954 thousand.
The introduction of outcome-based planning and service delivery agreements, signal our push for a results-oriented government, a government that understand the needs of our people and committed to find ways to best respond to those needs.
Provincial departments are expected to reprioritize spending to realign their budgets to ensure targeted spending on frontline government services.
For more information, contact:
Letshela Jonas on 013 766 4243 / 079 5000 154 or Joseph Mkhonto on (013) 766 4162 / 082 627 1750
Issued by Communications, Department of Finance, Mpumalanga Provincial Government