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Management and Oversight Services

Program code
ISS01 (ND)
Core responsibility
Internal Services
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Management and oversight services involve activities undertaken to ensure that federal government service operations and programs comply with applicable laws, regulations, policies and plans. Activities include providing strategic direction, governance and corporate planning; allocating resources and taking investment decisions; and analyzing exposure to risk and determining appropriate countermeasures.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Management and Oversight Services 2018-19: $114MManagement and Oversight Services 2019-20: $137MManagement and Oversight Services 2020-21: $159MManagement and Oversight Services 2021-22: $148MManagement and Oversight Services 2022-23: $147MManagement and Oversight Services 2023-24: $211MManagement and Oversight Services 2024-25: $199MManagement and Oversight Services 2025-26: $196MManagement and Oversight Services 2026-27: $219MManagement and Oversight Services 2027-28: $220MManagement and Oversight Services 2028-29: $223MManagement and Oversight ServicesManagement an…Management and Oversight Services
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. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Management and Oversight ServicesThis program2018-19 – 2028-29$1.12B

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
2019-20Renamed from “Management and Oversight Services - Department of National Defence” to “Management and Oversight Services”.GC InfoBase program names by year
2020-21Employees (FTEs) 1,054, against 851 in 2019-20 (+24%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2023-24Spending $211M, against $147M in 2022-23 (+43%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2026-27Planned employees (FTEs) 1,459, against 1,199 in 2025-26 (+22%).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

2018-19: $170M2018-19: $114M2018-192019-20: $109M2019-20: $137M2019-202020-21: $97.9M2020-21: $159M2020-212021-22: $110M2021-22: $148M2021-222022-23: $123M2022-23: $147M2022-232023-24: $150M2023-24: $211M2023-242024-25: $162M2024-25: $199M2024-252025-26: $196M2025-262026-27: $219M2026-272027-28: $220M2027-282028-29: $223M2028-29
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
2018-19$170M$114M
2019-20$109M$137M
2020-21$97.9M$159M
2021-22$110M$148M
2022-23$123M$147M
2023-24$150M$211M
2024-25$162M$199M
2025-26$196M—
2026-27$219M—
2027-28$220M*—
2028-29$223M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 8612018-19: 7862018-192019-20: 8602019-20: 8512019-202020-21: 1,7622020-21: 1,0542020-212021-22: 1,1482021-22: 1,0652021-222022-23: 1,0562022-23: 1,1342022-232023-24: 1,0212023-24: 1,2522023-242024-25: 1,1852024-25: 1,2962024-252025-26: 1,1992025-262026-27: 1,4592026-272027-28: 1,4622027-282028-29: 1,4562028-29
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
2018-19861786
2019-20860851
2020-211,7621,054
2021-221,1481,065
2022-231,0561,134
2023-241,0211,252
2024-251,1851,296
2025-261,199—
2026-271,459—
2027-281,462*—
2028-291,456*—

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.