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Program directory · Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Northern Science and Technology

Program code
HGV00 (INAC)
Core responsibility
The North - Self-reliance, prosperity and well-being for the people and communities of the North.
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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Northern Science and Technology 2011-12: $16MNorthern Science and Technology 2012-13: $12.9MNorthern Science and Technology 2013-14: $13.5MNorthern Science and Technology 2014-15: $40.8MNorthern Science and Technology 2015-16: $64.4MNorthern Science and Technology 2016-17: $53.8MNorthern Science and Technology 2017-18: $38.7MNorthern Science and Technology
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
Northern Science and TechnologyThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$240M

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
2014-15Spending $40.8M, against $13.5M in 2013-14 (+202%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Spending $64.4M, against $40.8M in 2014-15 (+58%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $38.7M, against $53.8M in 2016-17 (−28%).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: $13.5M2013-142014-15: $40.8M2014-152015-16: $64.4M2015-162016-17: $53.8M2016-172017-18: $38.7M2017-18
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—$13.5M
2014-15—$40.8M
2015-16—$64.4M
2016-17—$53.8M
2017-18—$38.7M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 432013-14: 412013-142014-15: 392014-15: 522014-152015-16: 582015-16: 422015-162016-17: 372016-17: 392016-172017-18: 452017-18: 382017-18
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
2013-144341
2014-153952
2015-165842
2016-173739
2017-184538

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.