Parking and spending (FOI)Parking and spending (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
24 March 2017.Request
A
How many breaks to civil servants and manual workers get per shift?
B
How long are the breaks?
C
Do civil servants still get half a day Christmas shopping?
D
How much does Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVS) spend on tea, coffee and biscuits?
E
How much do the Police spend on tea, coffee and biscuits?
F
How much do the Law Officers department spend on tea, coffee and biscuits?
G
How Much does the States of Jersey spend on taxis, and what companies do they use?
H
Why do civil servants and staff receive free parking. and are they required to declare this in their income tax return. what departments provide staff free parking?
How many parking spaces does each department provide staff at Police, DVS, Hospital, Education, Environment, Social Security, and so on.
Response
A
There are no paid breaks for civil servants.
Shift-based manual workers have paid breaks. Manual day workers have a paid tea break.
B
Each shift is inclusive of a paid tea break not exceeding 10 minutes in duration and a paid meal break not exceeding 30 minutes in duration.
The working hours of manual day workers are inclusive of a morning break not exceeding 10 minutes in duration, but exclusive of the mid-day break, which may be limited however to a period of 30 minutes by arrangement between the chief officer and the workers concerned.
C
There is no policy in place to permit the civil service pay group to have a half day for Christmas shopping.
An early work finish on Christmas Eve may be granted at the discretion of local management but this will be in line with service needs. There is no right for civil servants to this concession.
D
The States of Jersey has interpreted the request to mean the period 1 January to 31 December 2016.
£562.25.
This total does not include milk.
E
The States of Jersey has interpreted the request to mean the period 1 January to 31 December 2016.
£1,206.70.
This total does not include milk.
F
The States of Jersey has interpreted the request to mean the period 1 January to 31 December 2016.
£815.81.
This total does not include milk but does include sugar.
G
To ensure that this question has been answered identically across departments, the data has been extracted from the financial ledgers for local taxi fares only taken during the period 1 January to 31 December 2016.
| States of Jersey | £56,710.79 | Yellow Cabs Luxicabs Ltd Domino Cabs Liberty Cabs Citicabs |
Taxi costs incurred within the Education Department relate predominately to pupil travel as provided for in the Education (Jersey) Law 1999:
- The Minister may make such arrangements for the provision of transport or otherwise as the Minister considers appropriate for the purpose of facilitating the attendance at school of a pupil.”
- The Health and Social Services Department has excluded patient, escort and children’s fares.
- In addition some taxi journeys may have been recorded against travel and therefore it is not been possible to identify with certainty whether local or overseas.
H
Not all civil servants and staff receive free parking. There are some senior officers who do have a specific parking space allocated and some other staff who have access to free parking facilities should they choose to use it, on a first come, first served basis for operational use at sites outside St Helier where limited alternatives are available. The provision of free parking is currently under review.
The provision of a car parking space by an employer to an employee is specifically exempt from tax as a benefit in kind under Paragraph 13 (page 246) to Schedule 2 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961.
Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961
Therefore, neither the employee nor the employer is required to report the provision of a car parking space to the Taxes Office.
The exemption specifically relates to the provision of a car parking space and hence does not include the provision of parking season tickets, the provision of parking pay cards, payment for a private parking space rented by the employee or the payment of a parking allowance.
Exemptions from benefits in kind
These should be reported by the employee on their personal tax return in the “benefits” box. The employer would also have to declare the value of the provision of parking season tickets, the provision of parking pay cards and payment for a private parking space rented by the employee on their annual benefit in kind return. If the employer paid a car parking allowance this is treated as taxable pay and is reported by the employer and employee as such.
| Parking spaces by department |
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Department | Parking Spaces | Details |
| Chief Minister’s | 8 | Allocated spaces at Cyril Le Marquand House |
| External Relations | 2 | Allocated spaces at Cyril Le Marquand House |
| Treasury and Resources | 6 | Allocated spaces at Cyril Le Marquand House |
| Community and Constitutional Affairs | 3 | Allocated spaces at Cyril Le Marquand House Jersey Fire and Rescue Service - Limited parking on site, first come, first served basis. (1 permit issued at Airport FOC to Emergency Planning Officer). Jersey Prison Service - Limited parking on site, first come, first served basis. Reserved parking space for Governor and Prison Doctor only. States of Jersey Police (Green Street) - No staff parking spaces allocated. 1 space issued at Harbour and 7 spaces at the Airport for police staff on duty at those locations. Customs and Immigration - Limited reserved parking on-site controlled by management, plus space for operational vehicles. (71 permits issued at Harbours plus 6 permits issued free of charge to designated lease cars / 10 marked spaces at Airport for staff on duty, free of charge). Jersey Field Squadron - Parking is available adjacent to the building on a first come basis. The parking area belongs to the JEC. |
| Department for the Environment | | The Department operates over several sites. All of these sites have reasonably sized parking areas which are available to all staff free of charge on a first come, first served basis. These spaces are shared use for staff and departmental official vehicles. 17 permits issued at the Airport for Meteorological Office for 1 fleet vehicle and 16 staff. |
| Department for Infrastructure | | Parking Control - 19 permits are issued at Sand Street Car Park to Parking Control staff while they are at work. Other staff are based across 13 sites. Some sites have free parking available to staff and visitors who choose to use it on a first come, first served basis. Spaces are shared use with operational fleet vehicles. No information is held on parking uptake rates or whether sufficient capacity is available to provide parking to all staff. Department for Infrastructure - 9 permits issued at Harbours for fleet vehicles while on official business). |
Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture | 1 | Allocated parking space at Cyril Le Marquand House. Six staff park at the Langford and Haute Vallee sports centres and Howard Davis Farm, free of charge. 116 parking permits for Sport staff across Fort Regent, Les Quennevais and Springfield sports centres, only to be used when staff are actually attending for work purposes. The parking available at these sites is limited (approximately half the number of actual available spaces at Fort Regent) and available on a first come first served basis |
| Education | | All parking at the Education Department, Highlands and Hautlieu campus is free for teachers, civil servants, students and visitors to the department |
| Health and Social Services | 88 | HSS provide designated (restricted and controlled) parking spaces to specific post holders free of charge on a first come first served basis. These are all either at the hospital or the ambulance station. They are for staff who largely have on call/emergency commitments or who require their car in the course of their duty. There are many other HSS sites around the island that have free parking facilities but these are not staff designated and can be used by patients, carers, visitors and staff. Facilities Management Team members are restricted to park for a maximum of 3 days per working week. The remainder of designated permit holders have no restrictions. |
| Social Security | 5 | Allocated spaces at La Motte Street. |
| Non Ministerial Departments | 25 | Bailiff’s Chamber - 0 Judicial Greffe - 0 Viscount’s Department - 7 Magistrates Court - 10* Law Officers Department - 2** States Greffe - 0 Probation Service - 6*** * The Magistrate’s Court Greffe spaces are part of the Magistrate’s Court. Review is undertaken as part of the ongoing management of resources within the Court Service ** The Attorney General and Solicitor General are provided with Season Parking Tickets for use in the public car parks *** Probation and Aftercare Service “local transport and car parking policy” states there is no entitlement to free car parking on site and access to available spaces is on a priority basis (for example business need for use of vehicle on that day, mobility issues) |
some parking spaces are made available at a charge to the department and then recharged back to the member of staff some departments (Judicial Greffe, States Greffe) do not provide any parking arrangements for officers or staff Some post holders within departments (Law Officers’ Department) are allocated a parking space because they use their own vehicles for regular site visits Ports of Jersey provides parking permits to some departments such as Customs and Immigration, States of Jersey Police, Health and Social Services, Department for Infrastructure and Department of the Environment for operational use. In addition, there are 92 permits (71 issued to Customs and Immigration and 21 to Jersey Property Holdings) issued to staff for parking which is invoiced to departments and recharged back to staff.
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