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Receiver General for Canada

Program code
BEU00 (GSC)
Core responsibility
High quality, central programs and services that ensure sound stewardship on behalf of Canadians and meet the program needs of federal institutions.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Receiver General for Canada 2010-11: $120MReceiver General for Canada 2011-12: $123MReceiver General for Canada 2012-13: $118MReceiver General for Canada 2013-14: $121MReceiver General for Canada 2014-15: $116MReceiver General for Canada 2015-16: $110MReceiver General for Canada 2016-17: $104MReceiver General for Canada 2017-18: $104MReceiver General for Canada
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
Receiver General for CanadaThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$917M

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
2014-15Employees (FTEs) 328, against 461 in 2013-14 (−29%).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: $121M2013-142014-15: $116M2014-152015-16: $110M2015-162016-17: $104M2016-172017-18: $104M2017-18
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—$121M
2014-15—$116M
2015-16—$110M
2016-17—$104M
2017-18—$104M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 4302013-14: 4612013-142014-15: 3902014-15: 3282014-152015-16: 3562015-16: 3192015-162016-17: 2892016-17: 3082016-172017-18: 3072017-18: 3052017-18
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
2013-14430461
2014-15390328
2015-16356319
2016-17289308
2017-18307305

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.