No ministries are cheap as Treasury draws up budgets for the new team.(News)

There's also the cost of drawing up the new budgets and shuffling some of the departments from one ministry to another.

Although there is still no budget for the new team, the Treasury's annual Estimates of National Expenditure for 2009 give some idea of similar costs.

None of the existing ministries are cheap.

The Presidency is the smallest department with a minister in it. It cost R329m for 2009/10.

Public Service and Administration cost R355.8m for 2009/10. The staff costs of the public service are borne by other departments.

The Independent Complaints Directorate, which watches over the police, employs only about 300 people and …