Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I think probably Mr. Ermuth is referring to a colleague at the OCG who might be better placed to answer that question. We would be happy to get back to with an answer on that.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Ermuth.

Government Operations committee  That is correct—and actually for the departmental plans and departmental results reports as well.

Government Operations committee  I believe there was a change in the policy pertaining to it that would apply to what departments are obliged to report in the departmental plans and departmental results reports, but I think what we should do is—

Government Operations committee  No, there are often guidelines that are provided to departments on the preparation of their departmental plans and their departmental results reports.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, on Mr. Green's second question pertaining to the policy, we're happy to get back to him on that point. Again, I will state that it is absolutely the interest of the Treasury Board Secretariat to provide this committee with all of disaggregated data that is used in tha

Government Operations committee  Titan collects information and puts it into a database. We're able to provide all information that we collect from departments and agencies that rolls up to that March 17 report. That March 17 report is the year-to-date report, and we are happy to provide that disaggregated infor

Government Operations committee  From March 10 to March 17, we put together a report that we thought would be transparent, which would be [Technical difficulty—Editor] to be able to engage departments on the spending momentum of COVID-19, and that would be timely. We have no issues with providing the disaggreg

Government Operations committee  When you say [Technical difficulty—Editor], I heard expenditures, but those are actually the spending authorities. Were you asking about the authorities?

Government Operations committee  I can tell you how much has been spent according to the category of vaccines, as well as how much has been spent on medical research. It's encompassed under further support for medical research and vaccine developments. The amount is close to $2 billion as of the end of January 3

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to respond to the committee.

Government Operations committee  We would be happy to follow-up with the Public Health Agency of Canada and PSPC with respect to that question, and get back to the committee.

Government Operations committee  That is a question that we could direct to the department of Public Services and Procurement Canada, and get back to the committee.

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to answer that question, Mr. Chair. In the context of how we manage spending authorities for our estimates, documents for supplementary estimates [Technical difficulty—Editor] primarily in the realm of appropriation-dependent organizations. I'll give you an example

Government Operations committee  The format of the report was a [Technical difficulty—Editor] ensuring transparency, something that was useful to parliamentarians and committee members, and something that was able to be generated on a timely basis. When we collect all of this disaggregated information, we have