Senate

What Senate spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Reports through Parliament; the overview shows it in that ministry.

How did Senate spend its budget in 2025-26?

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, 2025-26

Total: $133M.

Workforce, 2025-26

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, 2025-26

The grants, contributions and other transfers Senate paid, program by program: $607K in all, against $607K for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Senate’s share of federal net spending

How Senate’s programs performed

Other organizations in Parliament

• House of Commons
• Parliamentary Protective Service
• Library of Parliament
• Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
• Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
• Senate Ethics Officer

Sources

• Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
• Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)

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.