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Appendix A—Secretariat Centrally Managed Votes Under Program Activity 5: Government-Wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (the Secretariat) centrally manages Votes to perform its statutory responsibilities for managing the government's financial, human and materiel resources. Planned spending in the Secretariat's Program Activity 5: Government-Wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments relates mainly to the following Vote:
Vote 20—Public Service Insurance
This Vote, which supports the Treasury Board's role as employer, is used for the following:
- Public service pension, benefit and insurance plans, including payment of the employer's share of health, income maintenance and life insurance premiums;
- Payments to or in respect of provincial health insurance plans;
- Payment of provincial payroll taxes and Québec sales tax on insurance premiums;
- Costs associated with the pension, benefit and insurance plans for employees engaged locally outside Canada; and
- The return to certain employees of their share of the employment insurance premium reduction.
Other contingency funds are available to other government departments, if required, and expenditures will be identified under their program activities. The following Votes are therefore excluded from the Secretariat's planned spending:
Vote 5—Government Contingencies
This Vote provides the government with the authority and flexibility to meet unforeseen or urgent expenditures until parliamentary approval can be obtained. Most of the items in this Vote are considered temporary advances to cover items that will be included in subsequent Supplementary Estimates for other departments and agencies, and reimbursed when the associated appropriation Act is passed.
Vote 10—Government-Wide Initiatives
This Vote supplements other departments and agencies' appropriations that support the implementation of strategic management initiatives across the public service. Historically, this Vote has been used to support such initiatives as Government Online, comptrollership innovation and modernization, the Financial Information Strategy, employment equity and program evaluation and internal audit.
Vote 15—Compensation Adjustments
This Vote supplements other appropriations to provide funding for the increased personnel costs of the collective agreements between the Treasury Board and the collective bargaining units representing public service employees, as well as the collective agreements signed by separate employers. These include members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Forces, Governor-in-Council appointees and Crown corporations as defined in section 83 of the Financial Administration Act.
Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward
This Vote allows for routine operating budget carry-forward (OBCF) amounts, as established under the OBCF policy, to be transferred directly to departments and agencies, in a timely manner, once eligible amounts have been confirmed by the Secretariat and approved by Treasury Board ministers.
Vote 30—Paylist Requirements
This Vote covers departments and agencies' paylist shortfalls related to parental benefits, severance and other allowances. To avoid discrimination in hiring practices, paylist costs related to these expenditures have been provided for centrally since the introduction of the operating budget regime in 1993. This Vote provides relief from the cash management challenges that departments and agencies face for these legal obligations.