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Program directory · Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Refugee Appeal

Program code
HAC00 (IRB)
Core responsibility
Resolve immigration and refugee cases before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law.
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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Refugee Appeal 2011-12: $1.8MRefugee Appeal 2012-13: $3.8MRefugee Appeal 2013-14: $7.5MRefugee Appeal 2014-15: $10.9MRefugee Appeal 2015-16: $11.9MRefugee Appeal 2016-17: $13.5MRefugee Appeal 2017-18: $11.9MRefugee Appeal
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
Refugee AppealThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$61.4M

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
2013-14Employees (FTEs) 62, against 22 in 2012-13 (+182%).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: $7.5M2013-142014-15: $10.9M2014-152015-16: $11.9M2015-162016-17: $13.5M2016-172017-18: $11.9M2017-18
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—$7.5M
2014-15—$10.9M
2015-16—$11.9M
2016-17—$13.5M
2017-18—$11.9M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1702013-14: 622013-142014-15: 752014-15: 692014-152015-16: 1002015-16: 842015-162016-17: 1202016-17: 912016-172017-18: 1712017-18: 902017-18
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
2013-1417062
2014-157569
2015-1610084
2016-1712091
2017-1817190

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.

Refugee Appeal: planned and actual spending | Canada Spends