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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) - 2025/26 Financial Year 8 PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION 8.1 Programme 1: Administration Programme Purpose: Provide leadership and strategic management and appropriate support services to all other programmes. %uf0b7 Office of the Member of the Executive Council: Sets priorities and political directives in order to meet the mandate of the department. %uf0b7 Management Services: Translates policies and priorities into strategies for effective service delivery, manages and monitors organizational performance and provides legal services and information technology support. %uf0b7 Corporate Services: Provides an internal enabling environment and support service to other programmes with regard to human resource management and development, records management and security & facilities management. %uf0b7 Financial Management (Office of the CFO): To manage and facilitate the provision of financial, supply chain, asset management, and internal control services to the department. %uf0b7 Internal Audit: To manage internal audit services. Table 9: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P1- 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 7 353 6 913 7 998 8 413 10 095 10 095 9 928 10 397 10 873 (1.7)2. Management Services 65 265 60 878 71 242 84 484 81 664 81 664 104 347 88 451 87 706 27.83. Corporate Services 27 676 24 761 27 893 39 912 35 857 35 884 42 143 41 363 43 242 17.44. Financial Management (Office of the CFO) 51 633 50 533 53 736 59 755 61 829 61 829 60 813 64 079 66 990 (1.6)5. Internal Audit 5 714 5 943 5 791 6 884 7 960 7 960 7 563 7 999 8 364 (5.0)Total payments and estimates 157 641 149 028 166 660 199 448 197 405 197 432 224 794 212 289 217 175 13.92024/25Table 9 above shows the summary of payments and estimates per sub-programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. The expenditure increased from R149.028 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R197.432 million in 2024/25 mainly due to the filling of new posts under the revised organisational structure, once-off costs for upgrading and maintaining computer server LAN infrastructure. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 13.9 per cent to R224.794 million mainly due to provisions made for new critical posts in the revised organisational structure, ICS adjustments, rescheduling of the organisational development projects from 2024/25 to 2025/26 as well as provision made for ICT Strategy initiatives. In 2026/27, the budget decreases due to the removal of once-off allocation, which was rescheduled to 2025/26 for an organizational development project, and it grows moderately in line with inflationary adjustment in 2027/28. 787