Budget Speech, 2013

Consolidated government expenditure

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Mister Speaker, there is considerable detail in the Budget Review and the Estimates of National Expenditure on government spending plans and service delivery targets. I will highlight just a few key points.

 

Consolidated government expenditure is budgeted to increase by 8.1 per cent a year, from R1.1 trillion in 2012/13 to R1.3 trillion in 2015/16.