Expenditure on Future Hospital project (FOI)

​Request

Can I request a full disclosure of the expenditure of the proposed New Building of the General Hospital?

Including:

A

Cost of purchased buildings.

B

Names of purchased building.

C

Cost of consultants.

D

Names of consultants.

E

Payments made to any construction firms.

F

Have any contracts been signed to undertake the building works by any firm, which in the event of any delays in planning / government procedures, result in payments being made. Commonly known as penalty clauses.

G

Any pre payments made to any firms.

Response

A and B 

The information you have requested in questions 1 and 2 is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is available for you to view on www.gov.je.

The information is detailed in a previous Freedom of Information (FOI) response on 25 October 2018 which can be located using the following link.

Future hospital property acquisitions (FOI)

C

The cost of consultants (including providers of professional services) to 30 November 2018 is £20,950,578.

D

The consultants listed below are the ones included in the cost figure shown in our response to question C above.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Building Design Partnership Ltd

Comnexa Limited

Concerto Partners LLP

Ernst & Young

Essex Chambers

Gleeds UK

GU Consulting Limited

Hepburn Associates Ltd

HLG Associates Limited

J3 Limited

Marcom Collective Ltd

MJ Medical

Ogier

Ove Arup & Partners

Perfect Circle JV Ltd

Robin Whitby Consulting Limited

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP

The Advisory Board Company

The Consultation Institute

WS Atkins International Ltd

E

The payments made to construction firms as at 30 November 2018 is £4,672,665

F

There have been no contracts signed, where in the event of delay, will result in default payments being made.

G 

There have been no pre-payments made.

Article applied

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.