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Patented Medicine Prices Regulation Program

Program code
ALE00 (PMPRB)
Core responsibility
Canadians are protected from excessive prices for patented medicines sold in Canada and stakeholders are informed on pharmaceutical trends.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Patented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2010-11: $4.2MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2011-12: $7.3MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2012-13: $3.9MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2013-14: $6.4MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2014-15: $3.5MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2015-16: $5.4MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2016-17: $6.1MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation Program 2017-18: $5.6MPatented Medicine Prices Regulation 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
Patented Medicine Prices Regulation ProgramThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$42.5M

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: $6.4M2013-142014-15: $3.5M2014-152015-16: $5.4M2015-162016-17: $6.1M2016-172017-18: $5.6M2017-18
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
2013-14—$6.4M
2014-15—$3.5M
2015-16—$5.4M
2016-17—$6.1M
2017-18—$5.6M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 442013-14: 262013-142014-15: 442014-15: 252014-152015-16: 422015-16: 312015-162016-17: 402016-17: 312016-172017-18: 332017-18: 312017-18
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
2013-144426
2014-154425
2015-164231
2016-174031
2017-183331

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.