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Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs) are individual expenditure plans for each department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). These reports provide increased levels of detail over a three-year period on an organization's main priorities by strategic outcome(s), program activity(ies) and planned/expected results, including links to related resource requirements. 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 appropriation-dependent departments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial Administration Act .

The Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) Quarterly Financial Reports make in-year spending at the Agency level available to Parliamentarians and Canadians. These reports supplement existing year-end reporting. Each quarterly financial report includes spending authorities granted through the Main and Supplementary Estimates as well as any allotment transfers approved by Treasury Board that have become available for use at the end of the quarter.

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are tabled in Parliament in the fall by the President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the ministers who preside over the appropriation dependent departments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial Administration Act.

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are tabled in Parliament in the fall by the President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the ministers who preside over the appropriation dependent departments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial Administration Act.

The Departmental Performance Reports and Departmental Results are similar, but different functions that serve to outline the strategic outcomes of the Department of Justice, but also the accomplishments that occurred over the fiscal year. The report describes to the purpose of the Department of Justice and the operating contexts that govern the department. The Departmental Performance Reports had been from 1999 to 2015, and the Departmental Results Reports have been published beginning in 2016. Starting in 2008, Financial Statements were included with the Reports as a supplement to the results.

Annual report for the 2012–2013 fiscal year.

This report was prepared in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.6.1.2 of the Directive on Internal Auditing in the Government of Canada, which specifies that the report must

• summarize the results of the committee's review of the various areas of responsibility;

• provide the independent members' assessment of the capacity, independence and performance of the internal audit function, and make recommendations if necessary; and

• express views that are entirely and exclusively those of the independent members, notwithstanding any assistance provided by Agency officials in the preparation of the annual report.

The Access to Information Act provides members of the public and corporations with the legislated right to access federal government records, subject to certain limited and specific exceptions. The Act complements other methods for obtaining government information, and does not limit in any way the access to government information that is normally available to the public upon request.

This statistical report concerns requests made under the Access to Information Act during the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2012, and ending March 31, 2013.

Departmental Performance Reports (DPRs) are individual department and agency accounts of results achieved against planned performance expectations as set out in respective Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPP). These Performance Reports, which cover the most recently completed fiscal year, are tabled in Parliament in the fall by the President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the ministers who preside over the appropriation dependent departments and agencies identified in Schedules I, I.1 and II of the Financial Administration Act.

The Privacy Act gives Canadian citizens and those present in Canada the right to access and request correction of personal information about themselves held by federal government institutions. The Act also outlines obligations related to the collection, retention, accuracy, use, disclosure and disposition of personal information.

This statistical report concerns requests made under the Privacy Act during the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2012, and ending March 31, 2013.

Responsibility for the integrity and objectivity of the accompanying financial statements for the year ended March 31st and all information contained in these statements rests with the management of Veterans Affairs Canada. These financial statements have been prepared by management in accordance with Treasury Board accounting policies which are consistent with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles for the public sector.