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Administrative Support

Department
Senate
Program code
BSY00 (SEN)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

Provide the ongoing support services required for the effective, efficient and economical delivery of operating programs outlined under the other two programs of the Senate. Administrative support provides accommodation and other facilities and tools, information, goods and services, and expert advice on all aspects of operations. Costs included in this program are: financial services and materiel management; human resources; corporate security services; information services; information technology management; accommodation planning, maintenance and upkeep of premises; postal, messenger and printing services; repairs, trades and transportation services; corporate improvement including internal audit and strategic management.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Administrative Support 2018-19: $28.1MAdministrative Support 2019-20: $28.1MAdministrative Support 2020-21: $31.2MAdministrative Support 2021-22: $30.9MAdministrative Support 2022-23: $32MAdministrative Support 2023-24: $36.2MAdministrative Support 2024-25: $44.2MAdministrative Support
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
Administrative SupportThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$231M

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: $28.1M2018-192019-20: $28.1M2019-202020-21: $31.2M2020-212021-22: $30.9M2021-222022-23: $32M2022-232023-24: $36.2M2023-242024-25: $44.2M2024-25
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—$28.1M
2019-20—$28.1M
2020-21—$31.2M
2021-22—$30.9M
2022-23—$32M
2023-24—$36.2M
2024-25—$44.2M

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.