Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's 5%.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have them with me. From memory, the budget for that first year was somewhere around $440 million to $445 million. You were talking about 2010-11, were you?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For 2011-12, in the main estimates our operating budget was $441.7 million. Then there were supplementary estimates of $12.9 million, for an operating budget at the end of the year of $454 million. Of that $454 million, the actual public accounts lapse was about $19.2 million. Th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The end-of-the-year budget was $454 million, and we spent $427 million.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The main estimates for 2013-14 are quite a bit lower, because we have the reductions for the strategic review. We're giving effect, actually, in the budget to the reductions for two years: the reduction of about $7.4 million for 2012-13, because they're being done now through sup

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe it's $428 million.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. As I was saying a little bit earlier, Mr. Chair, in this year's $3.629 million that we're reducing, the bulk of that is coming through attrition, as the member pointed out, about $1.8 million—$1.752 million—is from attrition and vacant positions. Another million dol

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We targeted four factors in the strategic review exercise: attrition, vacant positions or positions that we were going to eliminate through ongoing initiative reduction, operational efficiencies and budget cuts. The budget cuts were made mainly in areas where we had noted that th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have already started seeing savings in the budget on members' travel expenses. This item appears in a statutory appropriation because it is something allocated to members by legislation. Last year, while the House of Commons was sitting, there were savings of approximately $3

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Treasury Board, as the administrator and plan sponsor for the account, looks after establishing contribution rates and funding requirements for the particular plan. We anticipate that as those changes come into effect and as the demographic changes and the p

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Clerk, Mr. Speaker. How it works is Revenue Canada sets out certain limits on the pension that a person can receive, that can be paid to an individual. When you exceed those limits, basically a separate pension plan is created. The funding for those two accounts

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That pertains principally to leases. Rentals are not necessarily rental property, but any leases that we would have on equipment--photocopiers, office equipment, and those types of things.