Costs for Royal visit July 2024 (4) (FOI)

Request

The cost of the Royal Visit 2024 is outlined in this Ministerial Decision: 

TREASURY AND RESOURCES MINISTER (gov.je)

Please provide a breakdown of the £100,000 attributed to the following: "Communications to promote the visit, display and branding of the royal visit, information leading up to the visit, informing the public about Jersey’s links with the Sovereign, and live streaming of the visit in St Helier only."

Response

The Government of Jersey does not currently hold a complete account of costs incurred in respect of communications for the Royal Visit, funding of which was requested by the Bailiff’s Chambers.  However, it is understood that the Bailiff’s Chambers already has plans to produce an analysis of costs which is intended to be available in September 2024.  Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied. 

Article 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.

Public Interest Test 

Article 36 is a qualified exemption, which means that a public interest test has to be undertaken to examine the circumstances of the case and decide whether, on balance, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. 

Public interest considerations favouring disclosure:

• disclosure of the information would support transparency and promote accountability to the general public.

Public interest considerations favouring withholding the information: 

• It is intended to publish a report containing this information on www.gov.je within 12 weeks of the receipt of this request, once collation and verification of the data has been completed. In it is reasonable for government to publish reports in an orderly manner, following completion of appropriate internal processes, and publishing in advance, and in such close proximity to the expected publication date, would potentially undermine the orderly publication and conduct of government work (when the public benefit of earlier publication under the Law would derive limited benefit.​​