That's part of it, those essential votes. I'll just run through them because we don't bump into them a lot
There's something called vote 5 that is government-wide contingencies. It was, if I recall correctly, not used at all last year, so the whole amount lapsed. That's fine. That's only there if we need it.
Vote 10 is government-wide initiatives and it's small money if there's any kind of government-wide initiative we want to fund departments for.
Then you're into compensation adjustments, which is vote 15, and that's the one we spoke about earlier.
Then you have two votes related to departments' abilities to carry forward funds. For operating dollars, departments can carry forward 5% and for capital they can carry forward 20%. The maximum amounts for the whole government are included in those central votes. They're very much based on what requests the departments make.
You have the public sector insurance vote, which is vote 20. Treasury Board Secretariat functions as the employer for the whole of government, so that insurance money is in there.
Last is vote 30, which is the pay list requirements. Those are things like benefits related to maternity, etc., that drive some of our compensation costs.
Those central votes depend on government-wide trends and they're not specific to the operations of the department.