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Program directory · Department of Justice Canada

Legal Services to Government Program

Program code
ASE00 (JUS)
Core responsibility
A Federal Government that is Supported by High-Quality Legal Services.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Legal Services to Government Program 2010-11: $181MLegal Services to Government Program 2011-12: $172MLegal Services to Government Program 2012-13: $192MLegal Services to Government Program 2013-14: $191MLegal Services to Government Program 2014-15: $209MLegal Services to Government Program 2015-16: $194MLegal Services to Government Program 2016-17: $199MLegal Services to Government Program 2017-18: $186MLegal Services to Government Program
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
Legal Services to Government ProgramThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.52B

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

2013-14: $191M2013-142014-15: $209M2014-152015-16: $194M2015-162016-17: $199M2016-172017-18: $186M2017-18
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—$191M
2014-15—$209M
2015-16—$194M
2016-17—$199M
2017-18—$186M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 3,3252013-14: 3,1442013-142014-15: 3,1772014-15: 3,0792014-152015-16: 3,1242015-16: 3,0232015-162016-17: 3,0392016-17: 3,0962016-172017-18: 3,0892017-18: 3,0792017-18
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
2013-143,3253,144
2014-153,1773,079
2015-163,1243,023
2016-173,0393,096
2017-183,0893,079

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.