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What House of Commons spent in fiscal year 2022-23: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2022-23

Net spending, 2022-23

$553M

spent by House of Commons, less revenues it kept

Share, 2022-23

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did House of Commons spend its budget in 2022-23?

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, 2022-23

Personnel

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Professional and special services

Rentals

Information

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Transfer payments

Other subsidies and payments

External revenues

Internal revenues

$426M

$44M

$29.2M

$26.2M

$21M

$13M

$11.9M

$10.2M

$1.4M

$791K

-$4.3M

-$26.4M

Total: $553M.

Spending by program, 2022-23

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $553M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2022-23

Personnel spending

$426M

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, 2022-23

The grants, contributions and other transfers House of Commons paid, program by program: $1.4M in all, against $1.4M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Payments to Parliamentary and Procedural AssociationsPaymentsContribution$1,425,007
1 programs$1,425,007

House of Commons’s share of federal net spending