Program directory · National Research Council Canada
Communications Services
- Department
- National Research Council Canada
- Program code
- ISS02 (NRC)
- Core responsibility
- Internal Services
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Communications services involve activities undertaken to ensure that Government of Canada communications are effectively managed, well-coordinated and responsive to the diverse information needs of the public. These activities ensure that the public receives government information, and that the views and concerns of the public are taken into account in the planning, management and evaluation of policies, programs, services and initiatives.
This Internal Services category refers to communications that are corporate in nature, affecting the entire department whether through internal communications to all employees or external communications on behalf of the department.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communications Services | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $76.4M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Renamed from “Communications Services - National Research Council of Canada” to “Communications Services”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
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 | $10M | $9.9M |
| 2019-20 | $10M | $9.7M |
| 2020-21 | $10M | $9.9M |
| 2021-22 | $9.7M | $10M |
| 2022-23 | $9.9M | $10.3M |
| 2023-24 | $9.9M | $14.2M |
| 2024-25 | $9.8M | $12.4M |
| 2025-26 | $10.9M | — |
| 2026-27 | $11M | — |
| 2027-28 | $10.1M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $9.4M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 91 | 77 |
| 2019-20 | 83 | 78 |
| 2020-21 | 78 | 80 |
| 2021-22 | 80 | 80 |
| 2022-23 | 78 | 80 |
| 2023-24 | 80 | 81 |
| 2024-25 | 84 | 81 |
| 2025-26 | 78 | — |
| 2026-27 | 77 | — |
| 2027-28 | 74* | — |
| 2028-29 | 65* | — |
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 | $10,000,000 | $9,870,000 | $9,870,000 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $10,000,000 | $10,000,000 | $10,000,000 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $10,000,000 | $10,200,000 | $10,200,000 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $9,700,000 | $10,000,000 | $10,000,000 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $9,900,000 | $9,900,000 | $9,900,000 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $9,932,305 | $9,929,682 | $9,928,511 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $9,832,874 | $9,799,576 | $9,760,005 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $10,868,616 | $10,864,556 | $10,862,691 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $11,017,511 | $10,054,509 | $9,427,769 | ||||||||
| Actual | $9,916,888 | $9,730,631 | $9,918,320 | $10,010,171 | $10,265,979 | $14,150,191 | $12,402,050 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
