House Administration

Department: House of Commons
Program code: BSU00 (HC)
In Departmental Plans: Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

Employees of the House Administration are responsible for providing services to Members elected during a parliament. In addition, they serve the House as an institution on a permanent basis by ensuring continuity from one parliament to another, access to parliamentary records, and a stable infrastructure to support Members in the democratic process. They provide advice and support in a wide variety of areas such as: procedural, legislative and legal services; information technology and management; building management; security; food services; finance; human resources; and workplace health and safety. The employees of the House Administration strive to support the institution and the Members in their roles as legislators and representatives of their constituencies, in the Chamber, in committee and in caucus.

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

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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).

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.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
House Administration	This program	2018-19 – 2024-25	$1.63B

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

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 year	Planned	Actual
2018-19	—	$202M
2019-20	—	$213M
2020-21	—	$209M
2021-22	—	$222M
2022-23	—	$236M
2023-24	—	$267M
2024-25	—	$282M

Employees (FTEs)

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.