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Expenditure Profile

Figure 2: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 2011–12 Actual Spending ($ millions)

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 2011-12 Actual Spending

Figure 2: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 2011–12 Actual Spending - Text version

The Secretariat spent a total of $2.5 billion toward achieving its strategic outcome. Only 13 per cent of total spending represents expenditures for its operations. The remainder relates to funds for public service employer payments that the Secretariat manages centrally on the government's behalf.

Figure 3: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Public Service Employer Payments 2011–12 Vote 20 Actual Spending ($ millions)

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Public Service Employer Payments 2011-12 Vote 20 Actual Spending

Figure 3: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Public Service Employer Payments 2011-12 Vote 20 Actual Spending - Text version

Total spending on public service employer payments was $2.187 billion in 2011–12. Actual spending includes payments under 16 public service benefit plans and associated expenditures that include the Public Service Health Care Plan, the Public Service and the Pensioners' Dental Services Plan, provincial health insurance plans and payroll taxes. The preceding chart excludes $6.0 million in statutory payments.

Departmental Spending Trend

Figure 4: Spending Trend for Program Expenditures

Spending Trend for Program Expenditures

Figure 4: Spending Trend for Program Expenditures - Text version

Program expenditures includes Vote 1 for salaries, contributions and costs that support the operations of the Secretariat as well as the statutory items for contributions to employee benefit plans in respect of its own employees, and the salary and motor car allowance for the President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.

Actual spending for all programs that comprise Vote 1 increased from 2008–09 to 2009–10 by approximately $68 million in total, due to the creation of the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer and increases in collective agreement rates of pay for the Secretariat's employees.

The Secretariat's actual spending increased from 2009–10 to 2010–11 by approximately $12 million, largely due to the following:

  • Funding for litigation management ($5.3 million);
  • Funding to improve financial systems and to support financial decision making in the Government of Canada ($3.4 million);
  • Funding for the ongoing management of the classification program for the core public administration ($1.9 million); and
  • Funding for the ongoing management of the Treasury Board's employer obligations under the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act ($1.3 million).

The Secretariat's net actual spending increased from 2010–11 to 2011–12 by approximately $26 million largely due to the one-time disbursement of severance cash-outs by employees, pursuant to collective agreements that eliminate future severance pay accumulation ($21 million), and to an increase to cover professional services with external experts to support the review of departmental spending ($15 million). These increases are offset by decreases in funding due to the following:

  • 2010 Strategic Review ($4.4 million);
  • Deemed appropriation for Shared Services Canada (SSC) (approximately $4.2 million);
  • Decrease in resources to improve financial systems and to support financial decision making government-wide ($1.8 million); and
  • Cost-containment measures and various initiatives ($3.8 million).

The Secretariat's planned spending will decrease by almost $48.7 million (net) in 2012–13, when compared with the actual spending in 2011–12, due to the following:

  • 2010 Strategic Review (eventually reaching the full target of $11.5 million in 2013–14);
  • Cost-containment measures announced in previous federal budgets;
  • Transfer to support SSC ($10.6 million ongoing); and
  • Sunsetting of funds for various initiatives within the Secretariat, including the one-time funding to support consultant work for the review of departmental spending.

Planned spending will be further decreased by the implementation of the Budget 2012 Economic Action Plan.

The Secretariat's planned spending will decrease by approximately $22.4 million (net) between 2012–13 and 2014–15 due to the 2010 Strategic Review, cost-containment measures announced in previous federal budgets, the Budget 2012 Economic Action Plan, the transfer to support SSC, and the sunsetting of funds for various initiatives within the Secretariat.

Figure 5: Spending Trend for Public Service Employer Payments and Various Statutory Items

Spending Trend for Public Service Employer Payments and Various Statutory Items

Figure 5: Spending Trend for Public Service Employer Payments and Various Statutory Items - Text version

The bulk of the amounts presented in the preceding graph relates to the trend of expenditures in public service insurance, which include the payment of the employer's share of contributions required under the various insurance plans sponsored by the Government of Canada, and employment insurance and other related expenses. These amounts also include statutory items for payments under the Public Service Pension Adjustment Act and pay equity settlements, pursuant to section 30 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act, and unallocated employer contributions made under the PSSA and other retirement acts and the Employment Insurance Act.

After adjusting for a reversal of charges for 2009–10 of approximately $62 million (refer to the Supplementary Information table Non-Respendable Revenue), the net public service employer payments decreased by approximately $38 million from 2009–10 to 2010–11, largely due to the premium holidays under Disability Insurance and reduced provincial payroll taxes incurred.

Net public service employer payments increased by approximately $224 million from 2010–11 to 2011–12 as a result of a one-time lump sum payment for improvement of long term disability benefits provided under the Service Income Security Insurance Plan for Regular Forces and Primary Reserve Forces and increased payments under the Public Service Health Care Plan, the Public Service Dental Care Plan, the Pensioners' Dental Services Plan, Disability Insurance and payroll taxes. These increases were offset by the transfer of the management of pension, insurance and social security programs for locally engaged staff to Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and to National Defence.

Estimates by Vote

For information on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's organizational Votes and/or statutory expenditures, please see the Public Accounts of Canada 2012 (Volume II) publication.