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Supplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit

Department
Health Canada
Program code
LJT00 (H)
Core responsibility
Indigenous Services Canada works collaboratively with partners to improve quality of life and access to high quality services for Indigenous Peoples. Our vision is to support First Nations, Inuit and Métis to design, manage and deliver services to their communities.
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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Supplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2011-12: $1.11BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2012-13: $1.14BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2013-14: $1.07BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2014-15: $1.08BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2015-16: $1.14BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2016-17: $1.25BSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit 2017-18: $796MSupplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit
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
Supplementary Health Benefits for First Nations and InuitThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$7.58B

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
2012-13Employees (FTEs) 506, against 408 in 2011-12 (+24%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Employees (FTEs) 294, against 489 in 2016-17 (−40%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $796M, against $1.25B in 2016-17 (−36%).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: $1.07B2013-142014-15: $1.08B2014-152015-16: $1.14B2015-162016-17: $1.25B2016-172017-18: $796M2017-18
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—$1.07B
2014-15—$1.08B
2015-16—$1.14B
2016-17—$1.25B
2017-18—$796M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 4882013-14: 4922013-142014-15: 4912014-15: 4492014-152015-16: 3852015-16: 4732015-162016-17: 3852016-17: 4892016-172017-18: 4602017-18: 2942017-18
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
2013-14488492
2014-15491449
2015-16385473
2016-17385489
2017-18460294

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.