Mr. Arun Thangaraj at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On May 5th, 2016. See this statement in context.

May 5th, 2016 / 4:50 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Planning, Finance and Information Technology, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Arun Thangaraj

That is correct. In the planned spending, there are also certain technical adjustments that we have.

Your main estimates don't include, for example, very technical transactions, such as the operating budget carried forward. In our spending plans, we will have an idea or an estimate of what that is and will include that in our planned spending, because it is not appropriated at this time by Parliament. There are other certain things, like refunds for maternity and severance.

You will often see a difference between main estimates spending and planned spending.

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