2020 deaths in Jersey (FOI)

Request

What were the total number of people that passed away in Jersey during 2019?

What were the total number of people that passed away in Jersey during 2020?

Response

The Superintendent Registrar will be publishing her Annual Statement within the next three weeks which will provide all information requested. Article 36 of the Freedom of Information Law has therefore applied (Information intended for future publication).

Exemption(s) applied:

Article 36 - Information intended for future publication

(1) Information is qualified exempt information if, at the time when the request for the information is made, the information is being held by a public authority with a view to its being published within 12 weeks of the date of the request.

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

(a) of the date when the information will be published;

(b) of the manner in which it will be published; and

(c) by whom it will be published.

(3) In this Article, “published” means published –

(a) by a public authority; or

(b) by any other person.