Consultations regarding Health and Social Security (FOI)

Request

A

Please can you provide a breakdown of the costs for the following consultations with regard to health and social security departments:

• New Directions

• KPMG

• Delloite and Touche

• The Advisory Board

B

Please can you provide a breakdown of the spend so far on staff, management and projects undertaken under the umbrella of The White Paper 'Sustainable Primary Care Strategy'

Response

A

The cost of States of Jersey consultations for the period 1999 to 2014 are in the public domain and available via the following link:

Consultation reports 1999 to 2014

The cost of States of Jersey consultations for 2015 are in the public domain and available via the following link:

Written question to the Chief Minister from the Deputy of St John

Please note that as the information linked to above is in the public domain, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this request.

The agreed cost of the Deloitte work regarding health and social care funding policy is £100,000 (2017).

The Advisory Board are not a consultancy organisation, nor have they been engaged to undertake any consultations.

B

Please find below a breakdown of the spend so far:

Expenditure within the ‘projects’ category includes the costs for the Deloitte work associated with the Sustainable Primary Care Strategy, which totals £100,000 over 2016 and 2017.

Two pilot projects started in late 2017 and a third pilot is about to commence, causing spend on these projects to date to be minimal.

There is an allocated budget of £220,000 for the pilot projects within the Sustainable Primary Care Strategy budget.

Exemption 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.