International aid payments (FOI)

Request

Please provide a breakdown of all sums paid in international aid directly or indirectly to the following:

• The Gaza Strip
• Israel
• The Palestinian Authority (including the West Bank)
• Lebanon
• Syria

Please include the name of the recipient entity and if known, the nature of any indirect recipients.

Response

Information in respect of previous years is publicly available on the Jersey Overseas Aid Commissions website. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  Please see the following link:

Key Policies, Publications & Documents (joa.je)

Information relating to humanitarian grants issued in 2023 is publicly available on the Jersey Overseas Aid Commissions website. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  Please see the link below:

Humanitarian response (joa.je)

Further information may be available from the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission (JOAC), however, please note that the JOAC is not a Scheduled Public Authority and therefore not obliged to respond under Freedom of Information legislation. 

Contact details: Jersey Overseas Aid Commission (joa.je)

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.