Traffic and engineering feasibility studies costs (FOI)

Request

A

How much has the Government of Jersey, specifically the Infrastructure Department, spent on traffic and engineering feasibility studies which potentially affect traffic flows on the following roads?

• New St John’s Road
• Old St John’s Road
• Parade Road
• West Park Avenue

Please outline spend in the past 10 years. 

B

Please indicate at what level each of these studies were signed off at, for example, the grade of officer responsible for agreeing the project scope.

C

Also, fees with the consultant. 

Response

A

A total of £21,021 has been spent on feasibility studies in the past 10 years in relation to the requested areas, including the St John’s Road crossing adjacent to Pet Cabin.

It should be noted that the systems are not configured in a way to allow internal Government of Jersey staff costs to be reported against individual transport projects.

Therefore, this information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

B

Information in respect of the grade of the officer responsible for agreeing the project scope is withheld. Government of Jersey employees below Tier 1 and Tier 2 are protected from identification for the purposes of Freedom of Information disclosure, and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

C

A total of £15,703 has been spent in consultancy fees in relation to the requested areas over the last 10 years (included in the total sum specified in question 1).

Articles applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.

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 2005.

(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 2005; and

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