Results at a glance - 2016–17 Departmental Results Report - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Results at a glance

In 2016-17,^{Results at a Glance Footnote 1} the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (the Secretariat) supported the President of the Treasury Board in delivering on key elements of his mandate through initiatives under the Secretariat’s 4 programs. The following are highlights of the Secretariat’s achievements in each of these programs.

Program 1.1: Decision-Making Support and Oversight

• Released the Policy on Results
• Facilitated rapid implementation of the federal Budget 2016
• Released the Experimentation Direction for Deputy Heads
• Expanded, as a 5-year pilot project, the existing transfer payment toolkit to enable innovative funding approaches

Program 1.2: Management Policies Development and Monitoring

• Modernized communications by releasing a new Policy on Communications and Federal Identity
• Released the Interim Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act
• Developed the Government of Canada Service Strategy and published the Guideline on Service Management
• Supported the Treasury Board in adopting the new Policy on Financial Management and  Policy on Internal Audit
• Launched the Federal Public Service Workplace Mental Health Strategy
• Created a joint union/management Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in the Public Service
• Launched the Indigenous Youth Summer Employment Opportunity

Program 1.3: Government-Wide Program Design and Delivery

• Spearheaded work that resulted in Canada’s being ranked second in the world on the Web Foundation’s Open Data Barometer and being elected to the Open Government Partnership Steering Committee
• Established a Centre for Greening Government
• Reached 16 tentative settlements on collective agreements covering 85% of represented employees

Program 1.4: Government-Wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments

• Made 100% of the expected allocations and payments it manages

Actual spending: $3,064,208,634

$317.8 million (or 10%) was spent by the Secretariat to deliver results, $2.4 billion (or 79%) was spent to fund the employer’s share of insurance premium payments for public servants and public service pensioners, and $339.7 million (or 11%) was spent to pay the employer’s share of contributions to the Public Service Pension Plan.

Actual full-time equivalents: 1,922