Not exact matches
The
Main Estimates would provide reconciliation between the Budget expenditure estimates for the upcoming fiscal year and the Main Estimates for
Estimates would
provide reconciliation between the Budget expenditure
estimates for the upcoming fiscal year and the Main Estimates for
estimates for the upcoming fiscal year and the
Main Estimates for
Estimates for the year.
Prior to 2006, the
Main Estimates were primarily based on an up to date economic and fiscal forecast, as
provided in the budget.
The Budget would then
provide the basis for the
Main Estimates and the statutory spending estimates in the Main Estimates would be identical to those in th
Estimates and the statutory spending
estimates in the Main Estimates would be identical to those in th
estimates in the
Main Estimates would be identical to those in th
Estimates would be identical to those in the Budget.
The Budget, however, should
provide the economic and fiscal assumptions for the
Main Estimates in order for the
Main Estimates to be relevant.
We have documented the differences between the
Main Estimates and Budget / Update in previous blogs (1) and have encouraged the Government to take steps to make the
Estimates more comparable in concept and coverage to the Budget / Update and to
provide reconciliations of any remaining differences.
There is a fourth source of spending information — The
Main and Supplementary
Estimates, which
provide detailed spending information by departments and agencies.
The government
provides information to Parliament on its spending intentions through the
Main Estimates, tabled before March 1st of the preceding fiscal year, and Supplementary
Estimates tabled during the course of the fiscal year under review.
The current government has
provided few reconciliations between the Budget spending projections and
Main Estimates and none between the fall update projections and the
Main Estimates..
The
Main Estimates consist of three components: Part I, which
provides an overview of federal spending for the upcoming fiscal year; Part II which supports the Appropriation Act and
provides details of the spending to be included in the Appropriation Act; and Part III which includes Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs), which
provide details on the spending plans for all departments and agencies.
These
Main Estimates were based on the Economic and Fiscal Update projections
provided four months earlier and which are now out of date.
When Budget 2014 was tabled before
Main Estimates 2014 - 15, we were naively hoping that the President of the Treasury Board would
provide a detailed reconciliation between spending in the
Main Estimates and spending in the Budget for 2014 - 15.
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has recently begun to
provide analytical notes on the
Main and Supplementary
Estimates to assist parliamentarians in their scrutiny of the government spending.
Under the proposed new format, such a reconciliation table would be
provided with the tabling of the
Main Estimates.
This
provides the applicable standing committees with sufficient time to consider the
Main Estimates in detail and the Government funds to pay its bills.
For consistency and transparency reasons, the Budget should be presented before the
Main Estimates, thereby
providing the proper context for the
Main Estimates.
No reconciliation between the
Main Estimates spending number and the budget forecast was
provided.
In addition, requirements for incremental spending for existing programs could be included in the
Main Estimates,
provided the
Main Estimates are tabled after the Budget.
The large table below (click to enlarge)
provides an overview over the
main forms of support in place in the six countries, and their
estimated total value.
The calculator
provides members of the three
main civil service schemes: Classic, Premium and Nuvos with
estimates of how much the government's proposed pension changes could cost them between now and their retirement.
Its overall goal is to
provide estimates of GHG emissions associated with milk production and processing for
main regions and farming systems of the world.
[39] The
main focus of attention will be on the quality of data collection in the 2001 Census; as well as continuing to
provide population
estimates and projections [40]; improve administrative data collections; and to continue a range of surveys obtaining information from the Indigenous community.