Sentences with phrase «main estimates»

However, these components of spending, amounting to about $ 33 billion, were still not included in the total Main Estimates for 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17.

In previous blogs, we have detailed the differences in concepts and coverage between Budget expenses and Main Estimates spending.

This is why the government had to table Main Estimates on March 1st.

Statutory expenditures amount for about 60 % of total Main Estimates.

Main Estimates provide detailed information on the amounts to be included in subsequent «appropriation acts» to be tabled in Parliament.

Reconciliation of Spending: Estimates and Budget 2013 ($ billions) 2012 - 13 2013 - 14 Difference Main Estimates Voted 91.9 87.1 -4.9 Statutory 160.0 165.5 5.5 Total 251.9 252.6 0.7 Supplementary Estimates Voted 6.7 1.1 Statutory 0.4... Total 7.1 1.1 Total Estimates Voted 98.5 88.2 -10.3 Statutory 160.4 165.5 5.1 Total 259.0 253.6 -5.4

In fact, it is surprising that the full Main Estimates were not published with the budget as is the case in many provinces.

So the year - over-year Main Estimates comparison is not valid.

Thursday Questions — Environment, food and rural affairs, church commissioners, public accounts commission and the speaker's committee on the electoral commission Business Statement - Leader of the House Business - Proceedings on the supply and appropriation main estimates bill Adjournment - Female genital mutilation among at - risk girls - Jane Ellison

Main Estimates for the upcoming fiscal year (e.g., 2011 - 12) are usually tabled on or before March 1st.

There is also a full reconciliation of budget expenses (accrual basis) for 2018 - 19 and Main Estimates spending (modified cash basis) for 2018 - 19.

If the government fails to table Main Estimates on or prior to March 1st, it can not undertake spending on any of the voted items until Parliamentary approval is granted.

Statutory expenditures currently amount for about 60 % of total Main Estimates.

The warning Tuesday by the federal budget watchdog focused on the wording of the government's proposed changes to better align Ottawa's budgetary spending plan with the main estimates document.

«Parliamentarians can now literally follow the money from this new central vote to a specific line in the budget and the main estimates.»

The main estimates are one of the mechanisms that actually give departments and agencies the authority to spend public funds.

However, it is doubtful that they will be reported as such in the Main Estimates, thereby increasing the discrepancy between the Budget estimates and those included in the Main Estimates [i].

Third, the Budge presents expenses on a gross basis whereas spending is on a net basis in the Main Estimates.

If the budget is tabled after the Main Estimates, then new priorities identified in the budget will not be included in the Main Estimates.

For example, the cash payment of $ 1.9 billion associated with the «implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax» is included in the 2011 - 12 Main Estimates.

Furthermore, it is also important to understand that Main Estimates are not comprehensive or a complete accounting for all of the government's spending intentions during the course of the upcoming fiscal year (e.g., 2011 - 12).

Otherwise, the credibility of the Main Estimates and / or Budget will come under attack.

The Main Estimates are one of the most confusing documents tabled by the government.

The Main Estimates would provide reconciliation between the Budget expenditure estimates for the upcoming fiscal year and the Main Estimates for the year.

The Budget provides a much more comprehensive view of government spending than the Main Estimates.

This could make the Main Estimates for 2011 - 12 irrelevant as the 2011 Budget will contain revised estimates for the major statutory programs, as well as new spending initiatives.

However, three of the last five budgets have been tabled after the Main Estimates and this will occur again this year.

There are two types of spending in the Main Estimates: «voted» expenditures requiring annual approval from Parliament and «statutory» expenditures for which legislation was previously approved setting out the specific terms and conditions under which payments can be made.

Capital expenditures are also included on a cash basis in the Main Estimates but are accrued in the Budget.

Yet, according to the Main Estimates for 2011 - 12, «voted» spending is only expected to be $ 4.4 billion lower.

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 the Budget.

Given that the Main Estimates have to be tabled in Parliament before March 1st.

The Main Estimates for 2011 - 12 only incorporates the October 2010 Update projections for statutory programs — no new information was provided.

Comparing Spending in the Main Estimates And Spending in the budget has become like comparing apples and oranges.

No such allowance is made in the Main Estimates.

Traditionally, the Main Estimates have usually been tabled after the Budget.

In contrast, the Main Estimates are on a cash basis of accounting, recognizing spending only when a transfer has been made or a service delivered.

As a result, the Main Estimates tabled in Parliament did not reflect the budget's economic and fiscal projections, nor include the policy initiatives proposed in those budgets.

For example, in the Main Estimates for 2013 - 14, transfer payments administered by the Office of Infrastructure of Canada are planned to be $ 1.2 billion lower than those tabled in the Main Estimates for 2012 - 13, accounting for about 25 % of the overall reduction of $ 4.9 billion.

The latter two accounting differences explain about $ 30 billion of the difference between the Budget estimates of expenses and those in the Main Estimates.

Given the timing of the tabling of the 2013 - 14 Main Estimates, these Estimates are linked to the November2012 Update.

Pending resolution of the accrual accounting issue, there is no reason why the Main Estimates can not be made more compatible to the Budget by eliminating other differences.

The Budget, however, should provide the economic and fiscal assumptions for the Main Estimates in order for the Main Estimates to be relevant.

This is not the case of the Main Estimates where some revenues are netted against related spending.

Main Estimates are the means by which Parliament gives approval to government spending but for only one type of spending.

First, the budget includes new spending that reflects government priorities that are not included in the Main Estimates.