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725 THURSDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2008
726
dependants of parliamentarians in
residence at Acacia Park, our
records indicate that there is a
population of 405 dependants of
parliamentarians at Acacia Park.
(iii) Our records indicate that there are
26 domestic workers employed by
parliamentarians in Acacia Park.
(iv) There are 240 sessional officials in
residence at Acacia Park.
(v) With regard to family members/
dependants of sessional officials,
our records indicate that there is a
population of 513 dependants of
sessional officials at Acacia Park.
(vi) Our records indicate that there are
20 domestic workers employed by
sessional officials in Acacia Park.
(vii) The department does not do any
allocation for residents for outbuildings/outside
rooms in the
parliamentary villages. The outside
rooms are meant for storage
purposes and as such, the department
does not have any records of
residents residing in outside
rooms.
(viii) Currently there are nine known
illegal occupants at Acacia Park.
The department has referred all
illegal occupants to the Office of
the State Attorney for eviction.
There are also two departmental
officials who have been accommodated
in Acacia Park on the basis
that they perform standby duties
after hours as part of their duties.
Payments to members of
International Panel on Growth
1672. Dr D T GEORGE (DA) asked the
Minister of Finance:
(1) Whether any payment was made to
(2)
members of the International Panel
on Growth; if not, what is the position
in this regard; if so, (a) how
much and (b) to whom;
whether any further work will be
undertaken by the panel; if not, why
not; if so, what are the relevant
details?
The MINISTER OF FINANCE:
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(1) No direct payments were made to any
members of the International Growth
Advisory Panel (IGAP) except for
travel, accommodation and subsistence
costs. Payments were instead made to
institutions supporting the work of the
panel as a group, with the main agreement
between the National Treasury
and Harvard University (formally
called the President and Fellows of
Harvard College). This agreement
stipulated a fixed fee for the research to
be conducted by members of the panel
based in the USA, and in addition made
provision for payment of their actual
costs incurred for travel, accommodation
and subsistence during their five
visits made to South Africa between
January 2006 and June 2008.
(a) The total direct expenditure for the
South African government for the
IGAP project is estimated at
R15 769 349. This amount excludes
possible funds from other
projects which do not exclusively
cover the IGAP project (eg two of
the UK-based members are part of
the Centre for Research into Economics
and Finance in Southern
Africa, based at the London
School of Economics). The IGAP
research includes a final report
containing 21 specific recommendations,
submitted in September
2007, together with a set of 19
final research papers and seven
policy briefs. The report, policy
briefs, recommendations and research
papers were widely distributed
to all government depart-