Statistics User Group report correspondence (FOI)

Request

Please supply copies of all communications made between (1) the former/current Chief Minister (CM) and /or the Director General of Strategic Policy Planning and Performance and (2) the Statistics Users Group (SUG) in 2022 including reports (including the report delivered by the SUG to the CM in January 2022 to-date, and the former CM’s response in March 2022).

Response

Searches were undertaken on the email accounts of Tom Walker, Senator John Le Fondré and Deputy Kristina Moore, for the period 3 January 2022 to 12 September 2022 using the keywords `Statistics User Group’.

Relevant emails are provided in the PDF attachments.

The attachments have been redacted in accordance with the Article 25 (Personal Information), of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. Duplicates, and emails that are entirely exempt, have been removed.

Email correspondence - redacted

220329 Letter to the Chair of the Statistics Users Group_Redacted

Note

Article 25 is an absolute exemption, and therefore does not require a public interest test. However, it is noted that minimal personal information has been redacted within the emails, such redactions limited to the names and roles of less senior members of staff and certain third parties. Telephone numbers and email addresses have also been redacted.

Article applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.