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Program directory · Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Environmental Response Services

Program code
LJA00 (FO)
Core responsibility
Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2011-12 – 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 2011-12. 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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Environmental Response Services 2011-12: $10.9MEnvironmental Response Services 2012-13: $11.1MEnvironmental Response Services 2013-14: $35MEnvironmental Response Services 2014-15: $18.9MEnvironmental Response Services 2015-16: $17.8MEnvironmental Response Services 2016-17: $35.1MEnvironmental Response Services 2017-18: $35.4MEnvironmental Response 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
Environmental Response ServicesThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$164M

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 $35M, against $11.1M in 2012-13 (+214%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $18.9M, against $35M in 2013-14 (−46%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $35.1M, against $17.8M in 2015-16 (+97%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Employees (FTEs) 177, against 100 in 2016-17 (+77%).FTEs (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: $35M2013-142014-15: $18.9M2014-152015-16: $17.8M2015-162016-17: $35.1M2016-172017-18: $35.4M2017-18
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
2013-14—$35M
2014-15—$18.9M
2015-16—$17.8M
2016-17—$35.1M
2017-18—$35.4M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 762013-14: 792013-142014-15: 1072014-15: 752014-152015-16: 1062015-16: 842015-162016-17: 1122016-17: 1002016-172017-18: 932017-18: 1772017-18
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
2013-147679
2014-1510775
2015-1610684
2016-17112100
2017-1893177

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.