WRITTEN REPLY

QUESTION 3636

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 25/09/2015

INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 39/2015

3636.      Ms D van der Walt (DA) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:

Have all significant risks related to her department’s infrastructure programme been internally audited; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant outcomes?                                                                                                                       NW4274E

Response

A: The risks have been identified and included in the Strategic Risk Register and forwarded to the Internal Audit Branch to incorporate them into the Departmental Risk Register.

Risk Management activities are carried out continuously where new risks are identified, assessed and ranked according to impact-severity and, conversely, where certain risks are demoted following implementation of mitigatory measures. The Infrastructure Branch has regular meetings where aspects such as risk management are discussed.

Furthermore, the Internal Audit has included the audit of the infrastructure programme in their Audit Coverage Plan to be performed by the Auditor General South Africa.