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Risk Assessment Program

Program code
AWZ00 (CBSA)
Core responsibility
International trade and travel is facilitated across Canada's border and Canada's population is protected from border-related risks.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Risk Assessment Program 2010-11: $110MRisk Assessment Program 2011-12: $117MRisk Assessment Program 2012-13: $122MRisk Assessment Program 2013-14: $168MRisk Assessment Program 2014-15: $182MRisk Assessment Program 2015-16: $196MRisk Assessment Program 2016-17: $187MRisk Assessment Program 2017-18: $166MRisk Assessment Program
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Risk Assessment ProgramThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.25B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2013-14Spending $168M, against $122M in 2012-13 (+38%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $168M2013-142014-15: $182M2014-152015-16: $196M2015-162016-17: $187M2016-172017-18: $166M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$168M
2014-15—$182M
2015-16—$196M
2016-17—$187M
2017-18—$166M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,5942013-14: 1,3152013-142014-15: 1,4442014-15: 1,1492014-152015-16: 1,0512015-16: 1,1832015-162016-17: 1,0852016-17: 1,2392016-172017-18: 1,1982017-18: 1,2452017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-141,5941,315
2014-151,4441,149
2015-161,0511,183
2016-171,0851,239
2017-181,1981,245

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.