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Regional Economic Development

Program code
BNJ00 (FORDQ)
Core responsibility
Quebec's regions have a growing economy.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2012-13 – 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 2012-13. 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).

2012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Regional Economic Development 2012-13: $44.1MRegional Economic Development 2013-14: $39.1MRegional Economic Development 2014-15: $34.1MRegional Economic Development 2015-16: $33.6MRegional Economic Development 2016-17: $35.2MRegional Economic Development 2017-18: $37.2MRegional Economic Development
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
Regional Economic DevelopmentThis program2012-13 – 2017-18$223M

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
2025Budget 2025 measure “Renewing Funding for Regional Development Agencies”: $612M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match).Budget 2025, PDF page 285

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: $39.1M2013-142014-15: $34.1M2014-152015-16: $33.6M2015-162016-17: $35.2M2016-172017-18: $37.2M2017-18
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—$39.1M
2014-15—$34.1M
2015-16—$33.6M
2016-17—$35.2M
2017-18—$37.2M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 382013-14: 122013-142014-15: 162014-15: 202014-152015-16: 152015-16: 162015-162016-17: 212016-17: 212016-172017-18: 202017-18: 182017-18
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
2013-143812
2014-151620
2015-161516
2016-172121
2017-182018

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.