Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2014-15, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2014-15,
$6.77B
was spent by Health
In FY 2014-15,
2.4%
of federal spending was by Health
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $6.08B in FY 2014-15 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Health spend its budget in 2014-15?
Spending by entity, FY 2014-15
Health Department
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$4.26B
$1.02B
$848.5M
$638.4M
$7.9M
Health’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 1995–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Grants | Grants for research projects and personnel support | $870,277,008 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care | $641,124,657 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Health Infrastructure Support | $611,949,625 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Supplementary Health Benefits | $191,378,390 |
| Grants | Grant to Canada Health Infoway Inc. to accelerate the development of electronic health records, common information technology standards across the country, and the further applications of tele‑health applications | $87,956,664 |
| Contributions | Contributions to non‑profit organizations to support, on a long‑term basis, the development and provision of preventative and early intervention services aimed at addressing the health and developmental problems experienced by young children at risk in Canada | $81,921,533 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $77,758,979 |
| Contributions | Payments to provinces and territories to improve access to health care and treatment services to persons infected with hepatitis C through the blood system | $49,700,000 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $47,500,000 |
| Contributions | Contributions to individuals and organizations to support health promotion projects in the areas of building community capacity, stimulating knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership building/intersectoral collaboration | $40,956,432 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $35,835,074 |
| Contributions | Contributions to incorporated local or regional non‑profit Aboriginal organizations and institutions for the purpose of developing early intervention programs for Aboriginal pre‑school children and their families | $32,994,509 |
| Contributions | Territorial Health Investment Fund | $26,190,000 |
| Contributions | Contribution in support of the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS | $22,708,436 |
| Grants | Networks of Centres of Excellence | $22,589,000 |
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Health figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
