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Industrial Research and Development Financing

Program code
AOX00 (ISC)
Core responsibility
Advancements in science and technology, knowledge, and innovation strengthen the Canadian economy.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Industrial Research and Development Financing 2010-11: $247MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2011-12: $333MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2012-13: $349MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2013-14: $331MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2014-15: $221MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2015-16: $244MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2016-17: $281MIndustrial Research and Development Financing 2017-18: $395MIndustrial Research and Development Financing
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
Industrial Research and Development FinancingThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$2.4B

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
2011-12Spending $333M, against $247M in 2010-11 (+35%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $221M, against $331M in 2013-14 (−33%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Employees (FTEs) 48, against 73 in 2015-16 (−34%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $395M, against $281M in 2016-17 (+41%).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: $331M2013-142014-15: $221M2014-152015-16: $244M2015-162016-17: $281M2016-172017-18: $395M2017-18
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—$331M
2014-15—$221M
2015-16—$244M
2016-17—$281M
2017-18—$395M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 782013-14: 742013-142014-15: 782014-15: 722014-152015-16: 802015-16: 732015-162016-17: 772016-17: 482016-172017-18: 502017-18: 522017-18
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
2013-147874
2014-157872
2015-168073
2016-177748
2017-185052

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.