Departments with the largest unspent funds are higher education and training, police, health, co-operative governance, small business development and energy
Unspent funds by government departments in the first six months of the financial year total R3.9bn, Treasury deputy director-general for public finance Mampho Modise told parliament's two appropriations committees on Thursday.
The unspent amounts are surrendered to the national revenue fund unless finance minister Tito Mboweni approves their use elsewhere in the same department. “The departments are not fulfilling their mandates and doing what they set out to do at the beginning of the year,” Ryder said. “These are not the places where departments should be underspending. There must be consequences for departments underspending, especially in areas that are nationally urgent places to spend money,” said Modise.
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