Mr. Speaker, in response to part (a) of the question, Health Canada’s 2024–2025 Report on Fees, covering last fiscal year, will be released in the Fall 2025. In fiscal year 2023-2024, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, or PMRA, collected a total of $17,087,969 in revenues, including $6,271,360 from the pre-market submissions business line and $10,816,609 from the post-market annual charge business line. For details on the revenue collected by application type, please refer to 2023-2024 Report on Fees available at https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/corporate/about-health-canada/reports-publications/report-fees-2023-2024.html#a20.
With respect to part (b), the PMRA spent the money collected from (a) as follows: In fiscal year 2023-2024, concerning the Pre-market submissions business line revenue: PMRA incurred $60,864,504 in costs against this revenue line, namely, $37,526,680 in salaries, $6,826,085 in Operations & Maintenance, $10,132,204 in Employee Benefit Plan, $4,878,468 in accommodation, and $1,501,067 in Shared Services Canada costs. Concerning the post-market annual charge business line revenue: PMRA incurred $35,584,837 in costs against this revenue line, namely, $21,794,993 in salaries, $4,200,046 in O & M, $5,884,648 in Employee Benefit Plan, $2,833,349 in accommodations, and $871,800 in Shared Services Canada costs. Additionally, PMRA remitted $48,094 in fees to registrants for missed service standards from the pre-market submissions revenue collected last fiscal.
With respect to part (c), given that the total costs of PMRA were $96,449,341 and the revenue collected was $17,087,969, the Government did not collect more money than it spent in any of the application fees or fee lines.
