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Internal Services

Program code
ISS50 (ERC)
In Departmental Plans
2024-25 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Internal services are the services that are provided within a department so that it can meet its corporate obligations and deliver its programs. There are 10 categories of internal services: management and oversight services, communications services, legal services, human resources management services, financial management services, information management services, information technology services, real property management services, materiel management services, acquisition management services.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2023-24. 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).

2023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Internal Services 2023-24: $1.4MInternal Services 2024-25: $1.7MInternal Services 2025-26: $2MInternal Services 2026-27: $2.3MInternal Services 2027-28: $2.2MInternal Services 2028-29: $2.4MInternal Services
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
Internal ServicesThis program2023-24 – 2028-29$3.1M

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.

No significant changes detected.

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

2023-24: $1.4M2023-242024-25: $1.9M2024-25: $1.7M2024-252025-26: $2M2025-262026-27: $2.3M2026-272027-28: $2.2M2027-282028-29: $2.4M2028-29
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
2023-24—$1.4M
2024-25$1.9M$1.7M
2025-26$2M—
2026-27$2.3M—
2027-28$2.2M*—
2028-29$2.4M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2024-25: 92024-25: 72024-252025-26: 92025-262026-27: 82026-272027-28: 82027-282028-29: 82028-29
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
2024-2597
2025-269—
2026-278—
2027-288*—
2028-298*—

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

Plan2024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29
2024-25 plan$1,908,094$1,908,836$1,908,836
2025-26 plan$1,974,496$1,974,463$1,974,463
2026-27 plan$2,254,879$2,235,753$2,371,788
Actual$1,682,492

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