Reporting on the Total Annual Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013
Department/Agency: Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
Report on Annual Expenditures for Travel, Hospitality and Conferences
As required by the Treasury Board Directive for the Management of Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences, this report provides information on the total annual expenditures for each of travel, hospitality and conferences for the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013.
This information is updated annually and does not contain information withheld under the Access to Information Act or the Privacy Act.
Total annual expenditures for Travel, Hospitality and Conferences of the PMPRB are summarized below:
| Expenditure Category |
Expenditures for the year ending March 31, 2013
(in thousands of dollars)
|
Expenditures for the year ending March 31, 2012
(in thousands of dollars) |
Variance
(in thousands of dollars) |
| Travel - Public Servants |
$86.3 |
$86.9 |
-$0.6 |
| Travel - Non-Public Servants |
$13.3 |
$7.5 |
$5.8 |
| International Travel by Minister and Minister's Staff[1] |
N/A |
N/A |
|
| Total Travel |
$99.6 |
$94.4 |
$5.2 |
| Hospitality |
$3.8 |
$4.4 |
-$0.6 |
| Conference Fees |
$7.4 |
$16.2 |
-$8.8 |
| TOTAL |
$110.8 |
$115.0 |
-$4.2 |
Variance between 2011-12 and 2012-13:
The increase in Travel Non-Public Servants is due to a coding change; in 2011-12 the travel costs for contractors were coded as contracting fees.
The reduction to conference fees in 2012-2013 is primarily due to the identification of conference fees versus training costs and a subsequent correction to the coding.