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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Year capability. In the 2025/26, the budget increases by 15.9 per cent to R98.864 million due to the additional funding received for ECSECC for Eastern Cape Seaboard; long term planning as well as provincial regional observatory. 7.8.2 Transfers to other entities None. 7.8.3 Transfers to local government Table 9: Summary of departmental transfers to local government by category: Office of the PremierOutcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28Category A %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Category B 203 627 167 289 243 391 141 219 141 219 141 219 148 570 155 404 162 397 5.2Category C %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Unallocated %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 %u2013 Total departmental transfers 203 627 167 289 243 391 141 219 141 219 141 219 148 570 155 404 162 397 5.22024/25Table 9 above shows the summary of transfers to local government by category. Transfers decreased from R167.289 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R141.219 million in 2024/25 due to reduced allocation made for Small Town Revitalisation programme. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 5.2 per cent due to R148.570 million to inflationary adjustments. 8 PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION 8.1 Programme 1: Administration Objectives: Provide strategic leadership, management and support services to the Premier, Director-General and the department. The programme consists of the following five subprogrammes: %uf0b7 Programme Management: Corporate Support Services: The purpose of this subprogramme is to provide strategic leadership to the Programme. %uf0b7 Premier%u2019s Office: The purpose of this sub-programme is to ensure effective governance and service delivery to citizens of the Eastern Cape through provision of executive leadership and oversight %uf0b7 Director General Support: The purpose of this sub-programme is to render strategic leadership; coordination and intervention support services to the department and the Provincial Administration; and render secretariat support to Cabinet; Internal Audit; and Enterprise-wide Risk Management. %uf0b7 Corporate Management Services: The purpose of this sub-programme is to provide strategic human resources management and office support services to Strategic Management Services; Departmental Legal Services; Departmental Communications; and Departmental ICT.%uf0b7 Financial Management Services: The purpose of this sub-programme is to provide financial and supply chain management support services. 117