Questions and Replies

The right of Members to put questions to Ministers is an important part of ensuring the executive authority’s accountability to the Provincial Parliament. Questions may be put to Ministers related to their spheres of responsibility. Replies to questions are either given orally in the House or in writing. The replies to oral questions are recorded in Hansard.

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Question Question Number Date Question Link

With reference to the fixed establishment of the South African Police Service, (a) what is the total number of granted posts versus (b) the actual number of posts for (i) detectives and (ii) visual policing (VISPOL) in the province?

 4 30 September 2016 13050

Whether any of his Department’s employees has been on suspension with full salary during the period 1 April 2014 to date; if so, (a) how many employees have been receiving their full salary while on suspension, (b) for how long, (c) at what cost, (d) what are the names of the specified employees, (e) what are their designations, (f) why was each of the specified employees suspended, (g) when was each employee suspended and (h) what is the status of each disciplinary process against each of the specified employees?

 3 30 September 2016 13049

Whether any of his Department’s employees has been on suspension with full salary during the period 1 April 2014 to date; if so, (a) how many employees have been receiving their full salary while on suspension, (b) for how long, (c) at what cost, (d) what are the names of the specified employees, (e) what are their designations, (f) why was each of the specified employees suspended, (g) when was each employee suspended and (h) what is the status of each disciplinary process against each of the specified employees?

 2 23 September 2016 13048

a.How many mental healthcare patients were attended to at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of care in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) to date for 2016, (b) what is the bed capacity of each of the province’s psychiatric hospitals, (c) what is the average monthly bed occupancy rate of each of the specified hospitals in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015 and (iii) to date for 2016 and (d) what is the staff vacancy rate in the (i) medical, (ii) nursing and (iii) administrative categories of each of the specified hospitals?

 1 30 September 2016 13047

Whether his Department has any projects in the non-metropolitan municipalities in the Western Cape to assist agri-worker development; if not, why not; if so, (a) in which municipalities, (b) what are the details of these projects, (c) how many agri-workers have benefitted and (d) how much has been spent of the projects?

 9 23 September 2016 13046
  1. Whether his Department has any projects to facilitate emerging and existing farmers in the non-metropolitan municipalities in the Western Cape; if not; why not; if so; (a) in which municipalities are these projects, (b) how much does his Department spend on such projects and (c) who has benefitted from such projects;
  2. Whether there is additional funding for these projects from other partners; if so, what are the relevant details?
 8 23 September 2016 13045

With regard to international treaties on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change:
(1) Has the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs at any stage over the past ten years been briefed by the national Department of the Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on obligations arising from such treaties; if so, what are the relevant details;
(2) what support has been made available to provinces in order to support the obligations following such agreements?
 

 15 15 July 2022 13033

With regard to the ongoing winter initiation season:
(1) What measures are in place to ensure that initiations are conducted safely in the Western Cape;
(2) how much funds have been allocated to these measures for the current initiation season;
(3) how many initiates are expected to take part in the current initiation season?

 13 15 July 2022 13032

With regard to the Premier’s Advancement of Youth (PAY) programme:
(1) How many young people have been absorbed by the programme in the 2022/23 financial year to date;
(2) how many of these young people have disabilities;
(3) how many of the young people who took part in this programme in the 2021/22 financial year have been offered the opportunity of permanent employment?

 7 15 July 2022 13029

(1) What is the economic impact of load-shedding on small businesses;
(2) taking into account what is happening in the Western Cape and in the rest of the country, what is the state of progress with regard to securing Cape Town’s energy future and making Cape Town free of load-shedding and making electricity more affordable?
 

 6 15 July 2022 13028

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