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Program directory · The Correctional Investigator Canada

Ombudsman for Federal Offenders

Program code
AYD00 (OCI)
Core responsibility
The problems of offenders in the federal correctional system are identified and addressed in a timely fashion.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Ombudsman for Federal Offenders 2010-11: $3.2MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2011-12: $3.7MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2012-13: $3.5MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2013-14: $3.6MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2014-15: $3.7MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2015-16: $3.8MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2016-17: $3.5MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders 2017-18: $3.6MOmbudsman for Federal Offenders
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
Ombudsman for Federal OffendersThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$28.7M

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
2012-13Employees (FTEs) 29, against 4 in 2011-12 (+625%).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

2013-14: $3.6M2013-142014-15: $3.7M2014-152015-16: $3.8M2015-162016-17: $3.5M2016-172017-18: $3.6M2017-18
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—$3.6M
2014-15—$3.7M
2015-16—$3.8M
2016-17—$3.5M
2017-18—$3.6M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 312013-14: 312013-142014-15: 312014-15: 312014-152015-16: 312015-16: 312015-162016-17: 312016-17: 322016-172017-18: 322017-18: 322017-18
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
2013-143131
2014-153131
2015-163131
2016-173132
2017-183232

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.