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Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada

Learning

Program code
AMQ00 (HRSD)
Core responsibility
A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Learning 2010-11: $1.87BLearning 2011-12: $2.28BLearning 2012-13: $2.27BLearning 2013-14: $2.19BLearning 2014-15: $2.56BLearning 2015-16: $2.49BLearning 2016-17: $2.85BLearning 2017-18: $3.47BLearning
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
LearningThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$20B

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
2024Budget 2024 measure “After-School Learning”: $68M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match).Budget 2024, PDF page 148

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: $2.19B2013-142014-15: $2.56B2014-152015-16: $2.49B2015-162016-17: $2.85B2016-172017-18: $3.47B2017-18
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—$2.19B
2014-15—$2.56B
2015-16—$2.49B
2016-17—$2.85B
2017-18—$3.47B

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 3542013-14: 3312013-142014-15: 3212014-15: 3422014-152015-16: 3532015-16: 3232015-162016-17: 3482016-17: 3242016-172017-18: 3482017-18: 3462017-18
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
2013-14354331
2014-15321342
2015-16353323
2016-17348324
2017-18348346

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.