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Program directory · Parliamentary Protective Service

Physical security

Program code
BSW00 (PPS)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

The Parliamentary Protective Service is responsible for the physical security throughout the parliamentary precinct and Parliament Hill. This includes the physical security of the parliamentary precinct, Parliamentarians, Parliamentary Staff, and guests of Parliament, as well as all visitors to Parliament Hill and/or the precinct, and any assets located within or events that take place therein.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Physical security 2018-19: $83.8MPhysical security 2019-20: $88.7MPhysical security 2020-21: $73.8MPhysical security 2021-22: $86.6MPhysical security 2022-23: $102MPhysical security 2023-24: $95MPhysical security 2024-25: $108MPhysical security
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
Physical securityThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$637M

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

2018-19: $83.8M2018-192019-20: $88.7M2019-202020-21: $73.8M2020-212021-22: $86.6M2021-222022-23: $102M2022-232023-24: $95M2023-242024-25: $108M2024-25
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—$83.8M
2019-20—$88.7M
2020-21—$73.8M
2021-22—$86.6M
2022-23—$102M
2023-24—$95M
2024-25—$108M

Employees (FTEs)

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.