The MP for Bonnington South Ndaba Gaolathe has attacked the minister of Finance for failing to account for performance of programmes and projects that Government is undertaking in his 2017/18 budget speech. “For a Government that has invested so much on plans to drive new engines of economic activity by way of creating clusters (diamond, tourism/agriculture and financial/services) there is cause for alarm in both the Budget’s attitude to providing performance information on these clusters and on the budgetary allocations to the areas that would best represent the realisation of these policies. In fact there should be alarm that this Budget makes no effort to provide performance information or feedback on major projects and programmes, even if it’s on a few key areas that represent our core objectives as a nation. There is no performance information on whether our plans to improve our education system are working. There is no performance information to shed light on whether the quality of our health care system is improving or ailing. There is no performance data to show if there has been value for money in the procurement choices our Government made on the construction of major roads, or dams or buildings –…