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Section 31: Ministry summary

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**Table 1:Ministry summary**
(in dollars)^{Links to footnote * in Table 1}
Vote	Description	Source of authorities					Disposition of authorities
Vote	Description	Available from previous years	Main Estimates	Supplementary Estimates	Adjustments, warrants and transfers	Total available for use	Used in the current year	Lapsed or (overexpended)	Available for use in subsequent years	Used in the previous year
	Department of Veterans Affairs
1	Operating expenditures	–	1,368,262,515	–	–	1,368,262,515
1a	Operating expenditures	–	–	528,253,666	–	528,253,666
1b	Operating expenditures	–	–	41,162,590	–	41,162,590
	Transfer from:
	Vote 1 (Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development)	–	–	–	124,744	124,744
	Vote 1 (Department of National Defence)	–	–	–	28,332	28,332
	TB Vote 5^{Links to footnote 1 in Table 1}	–	–	–	52,857,171	52,857,171
	TB Vote 15^{Links to footnote 1 in Table 1}	–	–	–	3,655,864	3,655,864
	TB Vote 25^{Links to footnote 1 in Table 1}	–	–	–	14,673,497	14,673,497
	TB Vote 30^{Links to footnote 1 in Table 1}	–	–	–	16,285,946	16,285,946
	Transfer to Vote 5	–	–	–	(negative 800,000)	(negative 800,000)
	Total—Vote 1	–	1,368,262,515	569,416,256	86,825,554	2,024,504,325	2,001,439,955	23,064,370	–	1,364,791,202
5	Grants and contributions	–	4,800,622,351	–	–	4,800,622,351
5b	Grants and contributions	–	–	911,533,000	–	911,533,000
	Transfer from:
	Vote 1	–	–	–	800,000	800,000
	Vote 1 (Department of National Defence)	–	–	–	944,390	944,390
	Transfer to Vote 5 (Department of Canadian Heritage)	–	–	–	(negative 25,000)	(negative 25,000)
	Total—Vote 5	–	4,800,622,351	911,533,000	1,719,390	5,713,874,741	5,579,881,063	133,993,678	–	4,636,714,330
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Contributions to employee benefit plans	–	44,850,312	1,239,727	2,533,040	48,623,079	48,623,079	–	–	50,980,262
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Veterans Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment (Veterans Insurance Act)	–	175,000	–	(negative 175,000)	–	–	–	–	–
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence—Salary and motor car allowance (Salaries Act and Parliament of Canada Act)	–	98,600	–	(negative 4,315)	94,285	94,285	–	–	94,800
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Returned Soldiers Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment (Returned Soldiers' Insurance Act)	–	10,000	–	(negative 10,000)	–	–	–	–	–
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Repayments under section 15 of the War Service Grants Act of compensating adjustments made in accordance with the terms of the Veterans' Land Act (R.S.C., 1970, c. V-4)	–	10,000	–	(negative 10,000)	–	–	–	–	–
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Re-establishment Credits under section 8 of the War Service Grants Act (R.S.C., 1970, c. W-4)	–	2,000	–	(negative 2,000)	–	–	–	–	–
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Spending of proceeds from the disposal of surplus Crown assets	–	–	–	60,574	60,574	–	–	60,574	11,023
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Refunds of amounts credited to revenues in previous years	–	–	–	4,803	4,803	4,803	–	–	392,085
	Appropriations not required for the current year	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	82,500
	Total budgetary	–	6,214,030,778	1,482,188,983	90,942,046	7,787,161,807	7,630,043,185	157,058,048	60,574	6,053,066,202
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	^{Links to footnote L in Table 1} Loans to the Veterans' Land Act Fund pursuant to the Veterans' Land Act, Parts I, II and III as amended by Vote L55, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1970. Limit $605,000,000 (Net)	605,000,000	–	–	–	605,000,000	–	–	605,000,000	–
	Total Department—Budgetary	–	6,214,030,778	1,482,188,983	90,942,046	7,787,161,807	7,630,043,185	157,058,048	60,574	6,053,066,202
	Total Department—Non-budgetary	605,000,000	–	–	–	605,000,000	–	–	605,000,000	–
	Veterans Review and Appeal Board
1	Program expenditures	–	20,045,176	–	–	20,045,176
	Transfer from TB Vote 15^{Links to footnote 1 in Table 1}	–	–	–	319,213	319,213
	Total—Vote 1	–	20,045,176	–	319,213	20,364,389	19,041,506	1,322,883	–	16,202,110
^{Links to footnote S in Table 1}	Contributions to employee benefit plans	–	2,530,165	–	(negative 311,064)	2,219,101	2,219,101	–	–	1,922,077
	Total Agency—Budgetary	–	22,575,341	–	8,149	22,583,490	21,260,607	1,322,883	–	18,124,187
	Total Ministry—Budgetary	–	6,236,606,119	1,482,188,983	90,950,195	7,809,745,297	7,651,303,792	158,380,931	60,574	6,071,190,389
	Total Ministry—Non-budgetary	605,000,000	–	–	–	605,000,000	–	–	605,000,000	–
Table 1 notes General notes: Note: The full wording of all authorities granted in current year Appropriation Acts, of all authorities granted by statutes other than Appropriation Acts, of all non-lapsing authorities granted / repealed in the current year, and of all authorities available from previous years is given in Section 1 of this volume. A blank cell means there is no available data. Table note * The dash means that the amount is 0 or is rounded to 0. Return to table note * referrer in Table 1 Table note S Statutory authority Return to table note S referrer in Table 1 Table note L Non–budgetary authority (loan, investment or advance). Return to table note L referrer in Table 1 Table note 1 Treasury Board Vote 5—Government Contingencies. Treasury Board Vote 15—Compensation Adjustments. Treasury Board Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward. Treasury Board Vote 30—Paylist Requirements. Return to table note 1 referrer in Table 1

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