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4856 [Tuesday, 29 October 2013The expenditure pattern by the Department indicates that the Departmenthas been able to spend its entire budget over the years. This demonstratesa financial discipline by the Department and capacity for service delivery.Table 2 below indicates that in the year under review, the Department wasable to spend 99.84% of its allocated budget.Table 2: Percentage of spending by programme 2012/13Programme Total Appropriation Virements Total ExpenditureExpenditure %R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000Prog 1: Administration 179.224 12.712 179.224 100Prog 2: Policy and Knowledge629100Services 794.024794.024Prog 3: International Tourism 28.792 13.038 27.133 94.2Prog 4: Domestic Tourism 372.103 25.121 371.578 99.9TOTAL 1 374.359 51.500 1 371.959 99.844.2 Financial performance 2012/13This section of the report provides a broad picture of spending patterns andchallenges for 2012/13. It looks at adjustments, virements, cashflows,over/under-spending, rollovers and savings, and assess the impact.4.2.1 Quarterly spending trendsThe quarterly spending trends for the Department in 2012/13 financial yearwere as provided in table 3 below:Table 3: Quarterly spending 2012/13R million 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13ApprovedExpenditureQ1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4R423 R804 R979 R1184 R307 R597 R951 R1265 R325 R766 R1124 R1374ActualExpenditureR404 R696 R856 R1143 R258 R557 R935 R1250 306 R728 1102 R1374Variance R27 R108 R124 R40 R50 R39 R16 R15 R19 R39 23 R2% Variance 6.3% 13.5% 12.7% 3.4% 16.2% 6.6% 1.7% 1.2% 5.9% 5.1% 2.0% 0.2%The quarterly spending patterns for 2012/13 indicate that there was avariation of 5.9 percent in the first quarter and 5.1 percent in the secondquarter. There was a remarkable improvement on spending in the thirdquarter with only a variance of 2.0 percent recorded. In the fourth and theANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS NO 147─2013