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
  1. (a) How much has the provincial government spent on (a) bus, (b) railway and (c) minibus taxi subsidies and (b) how many commuters benefitted from (a) bus, (b) train and (c) minibus taxi services;
  2. whether there are plans to start offering subsidies to commuters as opposed to selected service providers; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  3. whether there are plans to increase the subsidy for the minibus taxi industry; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  4. what are his Department’s plans to address the inequalities in the subsidies paid to the different modes of transport?
6 2 October 2020 10218

(1)   (a) What is his Department’s total budget for legal services, (b) what (i) is his Department’s total breakdown of expenditure for legal services from the beginning of the sixth administration to date and (ii) are the details of cases that have been paid for;

  1. (a) what was his Department’s expenditure on legal services in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018 and (vi) 2019 and (b) what are the details of the cases that have been paid for;
  2. (a) how much has his Department spent on the Tafelberg site court case to date and (b) how much is budgeted for the appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal?

 

5 2 October 2020 10217
  1. What is the total expenditure for the procurement of PPE for the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, including the total breakdown of each expenditure item and unit price;
  2. whether there is a one-stop shop or a centralised system for PPE procurement in the province; if so, what are the relevant details;
  3. whether, with regard to the emergency procurement of PPE, his Department has given advice on the process; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  4. (a) what are the details of the budgets that were allocated to municipalities to deal with the pandemic, (b) how much was allocated to each municipality and (c) what is the total breakdown of expenditure for each municipality?
4 2 October 2020 10216
  1. (a) What is the update on LEAP deployment, including (a) the number of law enforcement officers who have been (i) recruited and trained and (ii) deployed and (b) what the total breakdown is of costs incurred for the (i) recruitment and training and (ii) deployment of these law enforcement officers;
  2. what is the salary range for the different ranks of law enforcement officers;

 

  1. whether any of the law enforcement officers, who are part of the Safety Plan, are earning EPWP salaries; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  2. whether there are any law enforcement officers, who have completed training, who are not deployed; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) what are the details of all these officers;
  3. whether the nationwide lockdown has had an impact on the training and deployment of boots on the ground; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  4. what is the number of officers who have been deployed in priority crime areas, including (a) the details of the areas in which they are deployed and (b) what the scope of their of work is?
3 2 October 2020 10215

Whether there are any learner transport providers in the province that either were not paid or received late payments between June and September 2020; if so, (a) what are the relevant details, (b) what impact did this have on learners’ travelling and (c) how has she intervened?

2 2 October 2020 10214
  1. Whether there are any schools in quintile 4 and quintile 5 that are struggling to pay the salaries for governing body teachers; if so, (a) what are the details of each school and (b) what intervention measures have been taken to support such struggling schools;
  2. whether there are any schools, especially in quintile 4 and quintile 5, that (a) terminated contracts of governing body teachers or (b) could not pay them full salaries during the lockdown period; if so, (i) what are the relevant details and (ii) what impact did it have on teaching and learning at those schools?
1 2 October 2020 10213

(1)    How many (a) teachers and (b) learners in the Drakenstein area have reported co-morbidities;

(2)    whether their applications for leave or absence have been processed successfully; if so, what are the relevant details;

(3)    whether any applications have been denied; if so, what are the relevant details?
 

1 17 July 2020 10212

1. How many (a) permanent job opportunities and (b) EPWP job opportunities did the provincial government create in total in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018 and (vi) 2019 to date;

2. whether the provincial government’s success in job creation is based on the creation of permanent jobs or on EPWP jobs?

11 27 September 2019 10211

With regard to the COVID-19 outbreak in the province:

 

  1. Whether her Department has been allocated additional funding to respond to the outbreak in the province; if not, why not, if so, what are the relevant details;

 

  1. Whether her Department has procured any additional face masks and gloves in response to COVID-19; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

 

  1. (a) What is the number to COVID-19 tests kits that are available in the province and (b) what is the total number of and details of self-quarantine centres that are available in the province;

 

  1. Whether, with regard to the number of COVID-19 positive cases that have been confirmed in the province, she can provide details of how many are (a) quarantined at home, (b) in self-isolation centres and (c) hospitalised as at the latest available information, if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

 

  1. Whether all the COVID-19 positive cases from poor areas, such as Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain ad Klipfontein and contacts, have been taken to designated isolation centres, if not, why not; is so, what are the relevant details
25 3 April 2020 10210
  1. Whether there is any protocol or procedure in place to be followed by the mortuaries and/or funeral parlours in the event of deaths due to COVID-19 virus; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
24 3 April 2020 10209

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