Ombudsman Ontario

Officer of the Legislature; also absorbed former French Language Services Commissioner (2019); FOI via central portal

Current this library's internal records: Ombudsman Ontario Strategic Plan 2024-2027 (2027)

Completeness

• Document shelf: 17 rows (17 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: on file
• Custody audit: 17 of 17 row(s) audited, all clean
• Last verified: 2026-08-01 · this org has NOT had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)

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Document shelf (17 rows)

Backgrounder

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Ombudsman Ontario - backgrounder

Backgrounder / 2026-07-30 / registry row: on-ombudsman-ontario (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

Ombudsman Ontario is established under the Ombudsman Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.6, consolidated at ontario.ca/laws (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90o06, fetched and verified directly via r.jina.ai render). The Act creates the office of the Ombudsman "as an officer of the Assembly" with authority to investigate "any decision or recommendation made or any act done or omitted in the course of the administration of a public sector body" affecting an individual, including compelling testimony, accessing premises, and issuing reports with recommendations (same source). The Act's scope has been expanded to cover matters concerning children and young persons receiving services under child-welfare legislation (same source).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

The office "solve[s] problems with Ontario government and public services," ensuring fair treatment and respect for Ontarians' rights, and works to improve public-sector accountability and transparency (https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/about-us/what-we-do, fetched directly). Municipalities, universities and school boards fall within jurisdiction as a "last resort" oversight function where local complaint/appeal mechanisms are absent or inadequate (same source). Per registry notes, the office also absorbed the former French Language Services Commissioner's functions in 2019, and now publishes a separate annual French Language Services Commissioner report alongside its main annual report (registry row registry id: on-ombudsman-ontario; https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/our-work/annual-reports, fetched directly).

Governance & reporting line

As an officer of the Assembly under the Ombudsman Act, the Ombudsman holds office for five-year terms, is appointed by the Assembly through a multi-party panel process, and may be removed only by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly — structurally independent of the executive branch it investigates (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90o06).

Budget scale

Budget scale: ⚠️ not yet confirmed against an original source. The office's 2024-2025 Annual Report (https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/our-work/annual-reports/2024-2025-annual-report, document id per doc-shelf: annual-report) provides extensive case narratives and notes 92% of staff complement filled, but no consolidated operating-budget figure was located within the fetched sections this review; as an Officer of the Legislature it is likely funded through the Legislative Assembly's own Estimates rather than a ministry vote.

Institutional history

"The Office of the Ontario Ombudsman was created in 1975 to help people when they have problems with provincial government and public sector services" (https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/about-us/what-we-do); the office marked its 50th anniversary in the 2024-2025 Annual Report (https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/our-work/annual-reports/2024-2025-annual-report), and per registry notes absorbed the French Language Services Commissioner's mandate in 2019.

Strategy evolution brief

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Ombudsman of Ontario - strategy evolution

2026-08-01 / registry: on-ombudsman-ontario / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: The biggest priority addition is the MUSH-sector jurisdiction (school boards, municipalities, universities) under Bill 8, doubling oversight from "500-plus" to "more than 1,000" organizations by January 2016, followed by the 2019 absorption of the French Language Services Commissioner and Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth. The most notable quietly-dropped element is the founding "Multipurpose Ombudsman" / Swiss Army knife framing (barometer, horsefly, oil can, safety valve), prominent in the 2012-13 report and never mentioned again. The load-bearing number is 2025-26's record 35,023 total cases, on top of a 43% three-year increase, against a budget that grew from $18.58 million (2015-16) to $32.9 million (2025-26). The open question the brief flags explicitly: the archived series ends without recording who succeeds Paul Dubé as Ombudsman after his term concluded in early 2026, leaving Barbara Finlay as Acting Ombudsman.

Backgrounder summary

Ombudsman Ontario is established under the Ombudsman Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.6, as an officer of the Legislative Assembly with authority to investigate decisions, recommendations and acts or omissions of public sector bodies affecting individuals, including compelling testimony, accessing premises and issuing reports with recommendations; the Act's scope has been expanded to cover matters concerning children and young persons receiving child-welfare services. The office describes its role as solving problems with Ontario government and public services and improving public-sector accountability and transparency, with a "last resort" oversight function over municipalities, universities and school boards where local complaint mechanisms are absent or inadequate. It absorbed the former French Language Services Commissioner's functions in 2019 and now publishes a separate French Language Services Commissioner annual report alongside its main report. As an officer of the Assembly, the Ombudsman holds office for five-year terms, is appointed through a multi-party panel process, and may be removed only by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly. The office was created in 1975 and marked its 50th anniversary in the 2024-2025 Annual Report. The backgrounder flagged the office's budget scale as ⚠️ still being checked, not grounded in that pass; this series-read pass located consolidated operating-budget and expenditure figures in most of the 14 annual reports (see Budget & mandate inflection points below), which substantially fills that gap.

Series inventory

All 17 archived documents were read in full: 14 annual reports (2013-2026, covering fiscal years 2012-13 through 2025-26) and 3 systemic-investigation reports ("other" type). No extraction failures occurred in this series — 100% read/grounded.

Priority evolution

2012-13 (ar-2013, 148881c2753b): The Ombudsman's message frames the office as a "Multipurpose Ombudsman" using a "Swiss Army"-style toolkit of approaches — barometer (trend-spotting), horsefly (direct prodding), oil can (facilitated resolution) and safety valve (last-resort intervention) — to resolve the 19,726 cases received in 2012-13. The office's Special Ombudsman Response Team (SORT) had an active systemic investigation, first identified as a trend in 2011-12, into the Ministry of Community and Social Services' response to adults with developmental disabilities in crisis, which had drawn "well over 800 complaints" by the time of writing. SORT's In the Line of Duty report (Oct 2012) on operational stress injuries among OPP officers is also described. The office repeats its long-standing call (traced back to founding Ombudsman Arthur Maloney) for jurisdiction over the "MUSH" sector (municipalities, universities, school boards, hospitals), which remained entirely outside its mandate. Annual Operating Expenses were $11,159 thousand; Net Expenditures $11,115 thousand.

2013-14 (ar-2014, 3b33fe78ad0a): A dedicated "Beyond Scrutiny: MUSH Sector Complaints" section reports a record 3,400 complaints and inquiries about MUSH-sector bodies in 2013-14 even though the office had no jurisdiction to act on them — used to argue for jurisdictional expansion.

2014-15 (ar-2015, 827b25401066): MUSH-sector complaints were 3,383, just under the prior year's record. The report calls this "the turning point": with Bill 8 enacted, school boards would come under the Ombudsman's jurisdiction in September 2015 and municipalities and universities in January 2016, ending a decade of "beyond scrutiny" status. André Marin, Ombudsman since April 2005, is quoted extensively from past reports pressing this case.

2015-16 (ar-2016, e95bacbb97c6): The Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014 ("Bill 8") jurisdiction changes took effect: school boards from September 2015, municipalities and universities from January 1, 2016. This doubled the number of organizations under oversight "from 500-plus to more than 1,000." Hydro One was removed from Ombudsman oversight upon partial provincial privatization in December 2015, while municipally-controlled hydro corporations came under oversight as part of the January 2016 municipal expansion — a net swap rather than a pure loss. André Marin's term ended September 2015; Paul Dubé's term as Ombudsman "began on April 1, 2016," one day after the fiscal year covered by this report closed, which the report states is why it was published in autumn rather than spring. Closed-meeting investigation (via the Open Meeting Law Enforcement Team, OMLET) is noted as having applied to municipalities without their own investigator "since 2008," pre-dating the broader Bill 8 jurisdiction by roughly eight years. In September 2016 (after this report's nominal fiscal-year end but described within it as a forward update), more than 1,000 students at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) were affected by school-bus service failures, prompting the Ombudsman to direct SORT toward a formal investigation.

2016-17 (ar-2017, 12274b0469fd): First complete fiscal year of the broader-public-sector jurisdiction; 945 cases were received about school boards. The office's budget for 2016-17 was $18.58 million, "unchanged from 2015-2016, when it was increased in recognition of our expanded mandate"; actual expenditures were $13.52 million (Annual Operating Expense $13,622K; Net Expenditures $13,519K), with unspent funds returned to the provincial treasury.

2017-18 (ar-2018, 6f0524ea054e): The Route of the Problem, the Ombudsman's report on the TDSB/TCDSB school-bus investigation launched the prior year, was released August 2017. The report states this was, at the time, the only formal investigation the office had launched related to school boards since gaining that jurisdiction in 2015.

2018-19 (ar-2019, 334ac0e1f1e2): The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), Ontario's sole legal recreational-cannabis retailer from October 17, 2018, became the single most-complained-about agency in 2018-19 within weeks of launch, driving total case volume to a then-record 27,419 (figure per later retrospective appendix tables, a18616d73f22/2fb0e965bb6c). In November 2018 the office learned its mandate would expand again: new legislation would transfer the French Language Services Commissioner's (FLSC) responsibilities and the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth's (PACY) investigative function to the Ombudsman. The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, another officer of the Legislature, was separately closed effective April 1, 2019, with its responsibilities transferred to the Auditor General of Ontario — not to the Ombudsman. Budget for 2018-19 was $20.18 million; actual unaudited expenditures $15.30 million (Annual Operating Expenses $16,379K, Net Expenditures $15,300K after recoveries).

2019-20 (ar-2020, a18616d73f22): On May 1, 2019, the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act, 2018 took effect, closing the FLSC and PACY as separate offices and transferring their functions to the Ombudsman. Two new specialized units were created: a Children and Youth Unit (handling complaints about children's aid societies, residential licensees such as foster/group homes, secure treatment programs and youth justice centres) and a French Language Services Unit. The Act required the French Language Services Commissioner to be appointed at the level of Deputy Ombudsman; following a national search assisted by an expert selection committee, Kelly Burke (former Assistant Deputy Minister of Francophone Affairs) was appointed and introduced publicly January 13-15, 2020. Total cases received in 2019-20 were 26,423. At fiscal year-end the office's jurisdiction spanned "more than 1,000 public sector bodies," comprising more than 500 provincial ministries/agencies/boards/tribunals, 444 municipalities, 72 school boards and 10 school authorities, 22 universities, and 50 children's aid societies. A retrospective appendix gives total cases received for 2015-16 through 2019-20 as 22,118 / 21,328 / 21,154 / 27,419 / 26,423 respectively.

2020-21 (ar-2021, 2fb0e965bb6c): COVID-19 dominates operations — temporary phone systems for inmates, remote-work adaptation, close monitoring of correctional and long-term-care ministries. Total cases dipped to 20,015, the lowest point of the decade, while closed-meeting/municipal complaints rose as councils navigated new virtual/hybrid meeting rules. Paul Dubé was reappointed "to a second five-year term as of April 1, 2021." Budget for 2020-21 rose sharply to $30.46 million (from $20.18M two years earlier) — reflecting the first full year of the FLSC/PACY-expanded mandate; actual expenditures were $23.08 million.

2021-22 (ar-2022, 4216ce8dd6b3): Case volume recovered to 25,161. The Children and Youth Unit is described as beginning to "build an approach to outreach and engagement" specifically for Indigenous youth, who are disproportionately represented in the child-welfare system — an early marker of a rising Indigenous-engagement priority (mentions of "Indigenous" in the annual reports were essentially absent 2013-18, then rose from 2019 onward, reaching a high of 90 mentions by ar-2026).

2022-23 (ar-2023, eae99dbab086): 24,551 cases received. Budget $31.28 million; actual (unaudited) expenditures $24.05 million.

2023-24 (ar-2024, 43ee54898626): 27,030 cases received — "almost a record high, surpassed only in 2018-2019" (the OCS-driven spike) — including record or near-record volumes in municipalities, school boards, children/youth in care and French language services. Two major systemic investigations were released in this calendar period: Administrative Justice Delayed, Fairness Denied (May 2023, oth-2023, 6b44a0179b5b), into delays and case backlogs at the Landlord and Tenant Board, with 61 recommendations to the Ministry of the Attorney General, Tribunals Ontario and the LTB (Tribunals Ontario accepted all); and Lessons for the Long Term (Sept 2023, oth-2023-2, 5b6b719b2597), into the Ministry of Long-Term Care's inspection and enforcement failures during the pandemic's first wave, concluding the Ministry's conduct was "unreasonable, unjust, and wrong" under sections 21(1)(b) and (d) of the Ombudsman Act, with 76 recommendations (72 to the Ministry, 2 to Government, 2 joint).

2024-25 (ar-2025, 0a94bbdca5be): Paul Dubé's 10th Annual Report, marking Ombudsman Ontario's 50th anniversary (founded 1975). Total cases hit 30,675, described as "a 30-year high" based on statistics reported since 1975-76. Complaints about correctional facilities reached 6,870, a 55% year-over-year increase, prompting explicit "growing crisis" framing and the launch of an investigation into a December 2023 incident at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in which roughly 200 inmates were made to sit facing a wall in their underwear with wrists zip-tied while crisis-team members patrolled with pepper-ball launchers. In May 2025, the Ombudsman signed MOUs with the Netherlands Ombudsman, the Ombudsman of Curaçao and the Chief Ombudsman of Thailand at the International Ombudsman Institute's Annual General Assembly in Morocco. Budget for 2024-25 was $33.10 million; actual (unaudited) expenditures $30.09 million; staff complement was 92% filled.

2025-26 (ar-2026, 7438d535b260): The final year of Paul Dubé's decade-long tenure; Barbara Finlay, previously Deputy Ombudsman, presents this report as Acting Ombudsman. Total cases reached 35,023, a new record, "on top of successive year-over-year increases: 43% in the past three years alone." Correctional-facility complaints eased to 5,960 — down from 2024-25's record 6,870, but still well above 2023-24's 4,444 — amid provincial legislation tightening bail restrictions and continued overcrowding (some facilities over 150% of capacity). In a "special end-of-term report" in March 2026, then-Ombudsman Dubé again called for urgent correctional-system reform. The provincial government placed eight school boards under direct ministerial supervision during 2025-26, suspending trustees' governance powers; this generated complaints to the Ombudsman about the supervision process, which the office (and Acting Ombudsman Finlay, addressing trustee associations directly) stated it could not use to investigate or overturn the underlying policy decision, only the administrative fairness of its implementation. In March 2026 the office released its Indigenous Services Plan, co-developed with Tawi:ne Consulting Inc. through engagement sessions with more than 100 Indigenous participants, setting out five core commitments. Budget for 2025-26 was $32.9 million; actual expenditures $31.7 million — the highest actual-to-budget utilization ratio in the archived series.

Nov 2025 (oth-2025, b8a180ec82bc), Lost in Transition: An investigation into the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services and Ministry of Health's response to inappropriate hospitalization of adults with developmental disabilities, issuing 24 recommendations. The report explicitly traces the issue back to the Ombudsman's August 2016 report Nowhere to Turn (not itself part of this archived set), which had issued 60 recommendations on the same underlying developmental-services crisis first flagged by SORT in 2011-12 (per ar-2013, 148881c2753b) — indicating the crisis remained only partially resolved roughly fourteen years after it was first identified.

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

• Added — MUSH-sector jurisdiction (school boards, municipalities, universities): absent through ar-2015 (827b25401066); took effect September 2015 (school boards) and January 1, 2016 (municipalities, universities) under Bill 8 (e95bacbb97c6), doubling the organizations under oversight from "500-plus" to "more than 1,000" (e95bacbb97c6).
• Added — French language services and child-protection/youth-in-care oversight: effective May 1, 2019 under the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act, 2018, absorbing the former French Language Services Commissioner and Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth as two new specialized units (a18616d73f22; 334ac0e1f1e2 for the announcement).
• Near-miss, not added — Environmental Commissioner of Ontario functions: that office closed April 1, 2019 in the same legislative wave as the FLSC/PACY transfers, but its mandate went to the Auditor General of Ontario, not the Ombudsman (334ac0e1f1e2).
• Dropped — Hydro One oversight: removed December 2015 upon partial provincial privatization; substantively offset by newly gained oversight of municipally-controlled hydro corporations from January 2016 (e95bacbb97c6).
• Quietly dropped — "Multipurpose Ombudsman" / Swiss Army knife framing (barometer, horsefly, oil can, safety valve): prominent as the organizing metaphor of the entire 2012-13 report (148881c2753b), absent from every subsequent report in the series with no stated retirement — a pattern comparable to other orgs' quietly-dropped "commitment area" framings.
• Added, gradual — Indigenous engagement and reconciliation as a named priority: essentially absent from the annual reports 2013-2018 (0-1 mentions per report), rising from 2019 onward, and formalized as the Indigenous Services Plan released March 2026 with five core commitments co-developed with Tawi:ne Consulting (7438d535b260).
• Escalating framing, same underlying issue — correctional-facility overcrowding: a perennial top source of complaints across the series, explicitly reframed as a "crisis" requiring "urgent reform" starting in ar-2025 (0a94bbdca5be) and repeated in ar-2026 (7438d535b260), including a formal Maplehurst investigation.
• Recurring, unresolved across the full series — developmental-services crisis: first identified by SORT in 2011-12 (148881c2753b), formally investigated in Nowhere to Turn (Aug 2016, 60 recommendations, not itself archived), and still generating new recommendations in Lost in Transition (Nov 2025, 24 recommendations, b8a180ec82bc) — the same underlying issue persisting across the entire fourteen-year archived window.

Budget & mandate inflection points

• 2015-16 / Jan 1, 2016 — Bill 8 (Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014) jurisdiction expansion takes effect; budget raised to $18.58 million "in recognition of our expanded mandate" (12274b0469fd, retrospective statement in the 2016-17 report).
• 2018-19 — Ontario Cannabis Store launch drives case volume to a then-record 27,419; budget $20.18M, actual $15.30M (334ac0e1f1e2).
• May 1, 2019 — FLSC and PACY absorbed under the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act, 2018 (a18616d73f22).
• 2020-21 — Budget jumps to $30.46 million (from $20.18M in 2018-19, roughly a 50% increase), the first full fiscal year bearing the FLSC/PACY-expanded mandate's cost; actual expenditures $23.08M (2fb0e965bb6c).
• April 1, 2021 — Paul Dubé reappointed to a second five-year term (2fb0e965bb6c).
• 2022-23 through 2025-26 — budget plateaus in the $31-33 million range, but the actual-to-budget utilization ratio climbs steadily: roughly 76% executed in 2018-19 (334ac0e1f1e2), 77% in 2022-23 (eae99dbab086), 91% in 2024-25 (0a94bbdca5be), and 96% in 2025-26 (7438d535b260) — the office appears to have grown into its expanded funding base over roughly seven years rather than immediately spending to the new budget ceiling.
• 2025-26 — Paul Dubé's second five-year term (April 2021-March 2026) concludes; Barbara Finlay becomes Acting Ombudsman; the archived series ends without recording a successor announcement (7438d535b260). ⚠️ still being checked outcome.
• 2025-26 — the provincial government's placement of eight school boards under direct ministerial supervision tested, without changing, the boundary of the Ombudsman's jurisdiction: administrative-fairness review of implementation, not review of the underlying elected-government policy decision (7438d535b260).

Ontario/Toronto relevance

Ombudsman Ontario's headquarters is at 483 Bay Street, Toronto, per the masthead of both archived investigation reports (oth-2023, 6b44a0179b5b; oth-2025, b8a180ec82bc). As a provincial oversight body, its relevance to Toronto is substantive and direct, not merely incidental, though narrower than a simple "largest city" reading would suggest:

• Toronto is carved partly out of the office's municipal jurisdiction. Because the City of Toronto maintains its own municipal Ombudsman ("Ombudsman Toronto"), the provincial Ombudsman generally cannot investigate a matter within a municipality that has its own ombudsman until that local process is exhausted, and states explicitly that "we do not have authority over the City of Toronto Ombudsman" at all (e95bacbb97c6). The office routinely refers Toronto-specific municipal complaints — e.g., old court-fine collection practices — to Ombudsman Toronto rather than investigating them directly (a18616d73f22). Despite this carve-out, Toronto was still the top municipality by case volume among Ontario's 444 municipalities in at least one reported year (404 cases in 2019-20, more than double second-place Ottawa's 200; a18616d73f22), reflecting population scale and cases outside Ombudsman Toronto's own remit.
• Toronto's two largest school boards were the subject of the office's first, and for several years only, formal school-board investigation. More than 1,000 TDSB and TCDSB students were affected by a September 2016 school-bus service collapse; the resulting SORT investigation produced The Route of the Problem (Aug 2017), with 42 recommendations, all accepted (e95bacbb97c6; 12274b0469fd; 6f0524ea054e; retrospective detail in a18616d73f22). TDSB remained the single highest-volume school board for Ombudsman complaints in subsequent reporting (119 cases in 2019-20, a18616d73f22).
• Toronto-area provincial transit and infrastructure bodies generate ongoing casework. The office has resolved individual complaints involving Metrolinx/Presto card transactions connected to TTC service (a18616d73f22) and, more recently, pest-control concerns near Ontario Line construction sites developed jointly by Metrolinx and the City of Toronto (7438d535b260) — Metrolinx, a provincial agency, falls within jurisdiction even where the City-run TTC itself would not.
• Closed-meeting oversight (OMLET) predates the broader 2015-16 jurisdiction expansion by about eight years, having applied since 2008 to Ontario municipalities without their own investigator (a18616d73f22), which would have included many GTA-area municipalities surrounding Toronto well before the 2015-16 expansion brought full municipal-administration jurisdiction.

No consolidated statement of additional Ombudsman Ontario office locations, satellite presence, or physical footprint beyond the 483 Bay Street headquarters was found in the read text.

Residuals & gaps

• No extraction failures in this series. All 17 archived documents (14 annual reports spanning fiscal years 2012-13 through 2025-26, plus 3 systemic-investigation reports) were read in full; extraction success rate is 100%.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: outcome of the Ombudsman succession process. ar-2026 (7438d535b260), the final archived document, records only that Barbara Finlay serves as Acting Ombudsman following the March 2026 end of Paul Dubé's second term; no successor appointment is recorded within the archived series.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: exact calendar date Paul Dubé's term ended. The report states this was "the final year of Paul Dubé's term" and references a "special end-of-term report in March 2026," which is consistent with (but does not explicitly restate) the clean April 1, 2021 start date of his second five-year term found in ar-2021 (2fb0e965bb6c); the precise end date is inferred, not directly quoted.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: current implementation status of key investigation recommendations — The Route of the Problem (school buses), Lessons for the Long Term (LTC/COVID-19), Administrative Justice Delayed (Landlord and Tenant Board), and Lost in Transition (developmental-services hospitalization) — beyond what is reported within the archived documents themselves. The series contains no document dated after fiscal 2025-26 that would show full follow-through.
• Pre-archive source reports referenced but not separately archived: Nowhere to Turn (Aug 2016, developmental-services crisis, 60 recommendations) and In the Line of Duty (Oct 2012, police operational stress injuries) are discussed and quoted within the annual reports but are not themselves part of this 17-document set; their content here reflects only what the annual reports summarize, not the original reports' full text.
• Budget figures partially resolve the backgrounder's ⚠️ still being checked finding. This review located grounded operating-budget and actual-expenditure figures in most annual reports (see Budget & mandate inflection points), but ar-2013 (148881c2753b), the earliest report in the series, states only "Annual Operating Expenses" ($11,159K) and "Net Expenditures" ($11,115K) without a separately labelled "budget" allocation figure, so a budget-vs-actual comparison is not available for 2012-13 as it is for later years.
• No archive_status=missing flags and no era:pre-web-baseline issues apply to this series; all 17 documents carry status "ok" in the registry index.