Program directory · National Defence
Legal Services
- Department
- National Defence
- Program code
- ISS03 (ND)
- Core responsibility
- Internal Services
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Legal services involve activities undertaken to enable government departments and agencies to pursue policy, program and service delivery priorities and objectives within a legally sound framework. Activities include the provision of the following services: legal advisory, litigation and legislative services.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Services | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $1.29B |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Renamed from “Legal Service - Department of National Defence” to “Legal Services”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
| 2020-21 | Spending $48.7M, against $104M in 2019-20 (−53%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $312M, against $48.7M in 2020-21 (+540%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $498M, against $312M in 2021-22 (+60%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Spending $142M, against $498M in 2022-23 (−71%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024-25 | Spending $91.1M, against $142M in 2023-24 (−36%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $30.6M, against $91.1M in 2024-25 (−66%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2026-27 | Planned spending $39.7M, against $30.6M in 2025-26 (+30%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $127M | $90.6M |
| 2019-20 | $33.7M | $104M |
| 2020-21 | $37.2M | $48.7M |
| 2021-22 | $53.8M | $312M |
| 2022-23 | $418M | $498M |
| 2023-24 | $33.1M | $142M |
| 2024-25 | $137M | $91.1M |
| 2025-26 | $30.6M | — |
| 2026-27 | $39.7M | — |
| 2027-28 | $36.9M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $37.6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 25 | 25 |
| 2019-20 | 29 | 28 |
| 2020-21 | 28 | 29 |
| 2021-22 | 29 | 29 |
| 2022-23 | 29 | 28 |
| 2023-24 | 25 | 26 |
| 2024-25 | 26 | 26 |
| 2025-26 | 27 | — |
| 2026-27 | 32 | — |
| 2027-28 | 32* | — |
| 2028-29 | 32* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $126,760,767 | $128,079,796 | $129,920,011 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $33,725,671 | $35,862,078 | $38,239,921 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $37,181,508 | $38,128,745 | $40,242,989 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $53,811,179 | $56,633,339 | $59,959,642 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $418,288,174 | $52,649,442 | $54,585,118 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $33,078,947 | $33,302,880 | $33,856,284 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $137,075,256 | $46,151,605 | $47,705,341 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $30,571,840 | $30,701,295 | $31,607,659 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $39,663,473 | $36,857,744 | $37,630,879 | ||||||||
| Actual | $90,624,866 | $104,059,086 | $48,744,107 | $311,742,584 | $497,908,748 | $142,490,270 | $91,066,812 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
