These reports are individual expenditure plans for each federal government department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). These reports provide increased levels of detail on a business line basis and contain information on objectives, initiatives and planned results, including links to related resource requirements over a three-year period. The RPPS also provide details on human resource requirements, major capital projects, grants and contributions, and net program costs. They are tabled in Parliament by the President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the ministers who preside over the deparments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial administration Act. These documents are to be tabled on or before March 31 and referred to committees, which then report back to the House of Commons pursuant to Standing Order 81(4).
