House of Commons
What House of Commons spent in fiscal year 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Parliament; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2020-21
Net spending, 2020-21
$610M
spent by House of Commons, less revenues it kept
Share, 2020-21
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did House of Commons spend its budget in 2020-21?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2020-21
Personnel
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Information
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transfer payments
Other subsidies and payments
External revenues
Internal revenues
$525M
$21.5M
$21.1M
$19.8M
$19.4M
$12.4M
$8M
$6.1M
$1.1M
$911K
-$1.3M
-$23.9M
Total: $610M.
Spending by program, 2020-21
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $610M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
Workforce, 2020-21
Personnel spending
$525M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2020-21
The grants, contributions and other transfers House of Commons paid, program by program: $1.1M in all, against $1.1M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Payments to Parliamentary and Procedural AssociationsPayments | Contribution | $1,132,361 |
| 1 programs | $1,132,361 | |
House of Commons’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Parliament
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2021, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
