Financial support given to Ballet de Jerais (FOI)

​Request 699269335

1)

Please provide information on how much financial support has been given to the Ballet De Jerais company whether directly with funds or indirectly with free services (including infrastructure, technicians etc).

2)

Further more in would be great to see how much investment has been made into the grass roots and performing arts for children, teenagers and young adults.

Response

1)

Information up to the end of 2023 is publicly available in the Annual Reports and Account for the States of Jersey, which can be accessed via the link below, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

Annual Report and Accounts for the States of Jersey​

The accounts for 2024 will be available to the public from May 2025, Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this information. 

2)

This information is not recorded in a reportable format. To provide an answer to this request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information. A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets in response to a Freedom of Information request, therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

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.

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 the relevant documentation on www.gov.je within 12 weeks of the receipt of this request. 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). ​