The other thing I'll mention is that on our website our office has published a detailed business case that we submitted to the speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate last year.
The analysis underpinning this business case is based upon the experiences of other independent fiscal institutions and the best practices identified by the OECD and IMF. I will say that we thought it was important to actually put the entire business case on the website, recognizing that as committee members you actually are still waiting for the detailed departmental plans to be tabled by various government departments and agencies. You're actually placed in a slightly awkward situation where you need to vote on supplementary estimates (C) and consider the interim estimates, all without those detailed plans for the coming fiscal year. Under Jean-Denis' guidance we actually decided to go one step further and table and share all that information from parliamentarians so they would be in a better decision to actually make those decisions.
The business case itself proposes a three-year plan that sees our office growing to about 41 staff, compared to the 20 that we had at this time last year, with an ongoing budget of about $7 million per year. I'd underline that this is about 10% lower than what we're proposing for the coming fiscal year, again, related to the non-recurring costs. Most of this additional funding would directly augment our ability to prepare research and analysis for parliamentarians. It would be going directly to the services that parliamentarians, generally speaking, seem to be happy with and have been demanding more of.
Most importantly, circling back to a point that Jean-Denis made earlier, we're confident that our budgetary proposal will allow us to fulfill Parliament's desire for transparent, timely, and relevant economic and financial analysis. Probably more important is the electoral platform costing which is a tall order for our office right now especially when looking around the world and recognizing that there is only one other OECD jurisdiction that actually undertakes this work. To that end as well, I'll also mention that our electoral platform strategy costing document has also been posted to our website and is available for all parliamentarians to take a look at. We're very keen to receive any feedback or suggestions you might have with respect to our initial proposal and our outline.
Thank you.