Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2015-16, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2015-16,
$6.72B
was spent by Health
In FY 2015-16,
2.3%
of federal spending was by Health
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $6.09B in FY 2015-16 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Health spend its budget in 2015-16?
Spending by entity, FY 2015-16
Health
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$4.36B
$1.03B
$749.4M
$574.3M
$9.5M
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 | $867,669,698 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care | $659,852,641 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Health Infrastructure Support | $637,662,686 |
| Contributions | Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Supplementary Health Benefits | $200,370,251 |
| 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 | $84,298,632 |
| 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 | $82,700,467 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $78,508,979 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $47,296,994 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $36,399,999 |
| 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 | $34,815,653 |
| 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 | $33,676,570 |
| Contributions | Anti-Drug Strategy Initiatives | $25,467,729 |
| Contributions | Contribution in support of the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS | $23,019,206 |
| Contributions | Territorial Health Investment Fund | $22,990,300 |
| 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.
