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Department: Cooperative Governance and Traditional AffairsDepartment through the annual licence fee renewal. These funds have been set aside for the 2025 MTEF period for this purpose. 7.8.4 Transfers to local government by grant name None. 8 PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION 8.1 Programme 1: Administration Purpose: To give effective strategic leadership and proficient administration support services to the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. The programme has 2 subprogrammes, namely: %uf0b7 Office of the MEC: To provide political direction and set policy priorities for intervention and play an oversight over the Department to ensure alignment to its mandate and mainstreaming the needs of vulnerable groups. %uf0b7 Corporate Services: To provide efficient and effective corporate support services to the Department. Table 11: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: Programme 1%u2013 Administration Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/281. Office of the MEC 11 583 12 406 10 957 11 265 11 692 11 392 14 178 11 821 12 544 24.52. Corporate Services 246 306 241 132 274 676 257 259 267 474 267 774 267 472 252 391 264 426 (0.1)Total payments and estimates 257 889 253 538 285 633 268 524 279 166 279 166 281 650 264 212 276 970 0.92024/25Table 11 above reflects the programme expenditure summary and estimates per sub-programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. The total expenditure increased from R253.538 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R279.166 million in 2024/25 mainly due to reprioritisation of funds to this programme to cater for in-year cost pressures mainly relating to contractual obligations and funding of critical posts within the Programme. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 0.9 per cent to R281.650 million due to reprioritisation of funds for contractual obligations relating to the servicing of the finance lease from GFMS (GG-Vehicles) with a request being made for an additional 12 vehicles over the MTEF period, procurement of furniture and laptops as part of improving the aging movable asset register base on these items as well as disaster relief truck and snow clearing machine. 506