2015–16 Departmental Performance Report

User Fees and Regulatory Charges (User Fees Act)

1. User fee: Access to information Act requests

2. Fee type: – Regulatory

3. Fee-setting authority: Access to Information Act

4. Year last modified: Effective March 31, 2015 no user fees are required other than the $5.00 application fee. This is a result of the TBS Directive on transforming the Access to Information Act.

5. Performance standards: The Access to information Act stipulates that requests must be answered within 30 days, unless time extensions are warranted as per section 9 of the Act. The performance standard for Correctional Service Canada is that a response to Access to Information Act requests be responded to within the legislated time frames, including extensions where warranted.

6. Performance results: In fiscal year 2015-2016, CSC received 646 formal access requests and had 219 requests outstanding from fiscal year 2014-2015 for a total of 865 requests. There were 178 requests processed past the legislated timeframe. The compliance rate for fiscal year 2015-2016 was 71.3%.

2015–16 7. ($ units)			11. Planning years 7. ($ units)
8. Forecast revenue	9. Actual revenue	10. Full cost	Fiscal year	12. Forecast revenue	13. Estimated full cost
6.0	4.0	936.8	2016–17	3.0	1,250
			2017–18	2.5	1,250
			2018–19	2.5	1,250

User Fee Totals

	2015–16 7. ($ units)			11. Planning years 7. ($ units)
	8. Forecast revenue	9. Actual revenue	10. Full cost	Fiscal year	12. Forecast revenue	13. Estimated full cost
Subtotal regulatory	6.0	4.0	936.8	2016–17	3.0	1,250
				2017–18	2.5	1,250
				2018–19	2.5	1,250
Subtotal other products and services	N/A	N/A	N/A	2016–17	N/A	N/A
				2017–18	N/A	N/A
				2018–19	N/A	N/A
Total	6.0	4.0	936.8	2016–17	3.0	1,250
				2017–18	2.5	1,250
				2018–19	2.5	1,250