Internal Services

Official Title: Performance Monitoring Report 2017-2018, Internal Services
From: Parole Board of Canada

Internal Services

Tables 183-185

As the Government of Canada is committed to the continuous examination of its expenditures to ensure responsible spending, the Board must ensure that its programs are managed effectively and efficiently.

PBC Reference Levels

Figure 44. PBC Reference Levels

• In 2017/18, the total PBC expenditures amounted to $47.7 million, or a $0.9 million increase compared to 2016/17.
• The Board has one strategic outcome which is “Conditional Release and Record Suspension Decisions and Decision Processes that Safeguard Canadian Communities”.  The Board applies its resources to four programs: Conditional Release Decisions, Conditional Release Openness and Accountability, Record Suspension Decisions and Clemency Recommendations and Internal Services. Conditional release decision making is the most resource intensive area, accounting for 83% of the Board’s expenditures in 2017/18.
• The expenditures for the Record Suspension Decisions and Clemency Recommendations program is net of revenue. The fee to process a record suspension application is $631. The respendable revenue for the PBC is $470 per application. In 2017/18, PBC received revenue of $6,877,269 for 10,899 record suspension applications. The PBC portion was $5,122,530.

Human Resources Management

• As of March 31, 2018, the Board staff consisted of 404 employees, 79% females and 21% males. The highest proportion of female staff was in the Atlantic region (16:1) and the lowest proportion was at the National Office (2:1).
• For 60% of PBC employees, the first official language was English and for 40% of employees, it was French. Fifty-one percent (51%) of staff were bilingual.
• As of March 31, 2018, four percent of the Board’s staff were Indigenous and 12% were visible minorities. Employees with disabilities accounted for six percent of the Board’s staff.
• As of April 9, 2018, the Board had a total of 69 Board members (42 full-time and 27 part time).
• Women represented 48% of all Board members.
• The first official language of 77% of Board members was English, while French was the first official language of 23% of Board members. Twenty-five percent (25%) of Board members were bilingual.

Table 183. Expenditures by Program (in Millions)

¹ Includes $2.1 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the pardon reform.
² Includes $1.1 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the pardon reform.
³ Includes $0.6 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the pardon reform.
⁴ Includes $1.0 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the application fee increase.

Table 184. Parole Board of Canada Staff Complement (as of March 31, 2018)

Note: Includes indeterminate and term employees.

Table 185. Parole Board of Canada Board Member Complement (as of April 9, 2018)