Government Operations committee  For this current fiscal year, there will be savings of $2.1 million as a result of this consolidation, and from April 1 ongoing, that will be $8.7 million. What's also important, as Mr. Matthews stated, is that currently each department has its own contracts with Microsoft or Adobe.

Government Operations committee  It's a good question. If you actually go to page 2-51, which is the Treasury Board as a department, where it lists all of what is in the supplementary estimates, under “Budgetary”, “Voted”, “1c Program expenditures”, what you'll see there is $1.4 million. That is the $1.9 million for the program to modernize the disability and sick leave management, less a transfer to Shared Services Canada for the workplace technology devices of about $0.5 million.

Government Operations committee  Bill can add to this if he wishes. First of all, out of the $1.9 million for the Treasury Board Secretariat, $800,000 is to pay salaries. Just like in any business, there is an employer contribution for salaries for things like the Canada pension plan, employment insurance, those types of things.

Government Operations committee  Treasury Board Secretariat, as the employer of the public service, is responsible for the overall project leadership for the modernization of the sick leave and disability management program, the design work on the new plans, as well as any policy development. It also will support the negotiations with the bargaining agents, as already mentioned by Mr.

Government Operations committee  For the public service pension plan, which is the largest pension plan, this was the first one they've had. What happens is the office of the chief actuary, which actually resides in OSFI, does a tri-annual report. This time, after the tri-annual report, they said that we had to inject $443 million per year over the next 13 years into the pension plan.

Government Operations committee  On the workplace renewal initiative, first of all, the bulk of our employees currently are actually in L'Esplanade Laurier, and it's a building that does need significant renovations, so we have to move out of that building. We will be moving to the building on 90 Elgin Street, which is the old art gallery, which is right across from the National Arts Centre, along with the Department of Finance.

Government Operations committee  No, not yet.

Government Operations committee  Annually. Each department's compliance with the requirements will be assessed and will be published in an annual scorecard starting in early 2014.

Government Operations committee  The cost of the ongoing monitoring of the implementation of the regulatory reforms is about $425,000. In addition to the monitoring and the central oversight activities, it also includes TBS support services to the President's regulatory advisory committee, members of which serve on a pro bono, voluntary basis.

Government Operations committee  That's part of the monitoring program headed by Michael Presley in our organization.

Government Operations committee  On the next slide you have a table that shows all of the votes that are under the responsibility of the Treasury Board Secretariat, their main estimates, what they've received in supplementary estimates (B), any technical adjustments, and what the proposed authorities are to date.

Government Operations committee  Bonjour. For the Secretariat as a department, the total supplementary estimates amount to $1.8 billion. In terms of program expenditures, we have a number of items in supplementary estimates (B). One, the first one, is for the workspace renewal initiative. This is a six-year project that started in 2011-12 to consolidate ten office locations of the Treasury Board Secretariat into two, to modernize the offices, and to reduce office space by over 30%.

Government Operations committee  The cyber-security strategy was announced in 2010 to counter the attacks on computer networks. It was $155 million over five years, for a number of organizations. About $5.1 million of that went to Treasury Board for this year. There are basically two things that they're working on.

Government Operations committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. The question, as I understand it, is why is there a decrease in vote 20 on insurance?

Government Operations committee  There are actually two components. The first component is the joint learning program, which is a sunsetting fund. That program actually sunsets, so that came out of vote 20 and that was $2 million. The other part is for the public service insurance, which was a savings of $8 million.