Feasibility studies in relation to the Future Hospital site (FOI)

​Request

How much has been spent to date on paying consultants to undertake feasibility studies in Jersey in relation to the new hospital site(s). This should also include the names of the consultants and their employers plus the results of all the feasibility studies completed so far.

Response

The information you have requested is not held in a format that allows us to easily extract data solely relating to feasibility studies.  

We estimate that it will take us in excess of 12.5 working hours to determine appropriate material and to locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request. Your request, therefore, will not be processed further.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Reports, documents and details about proposed hospital sites can be found on the Future Hospital website. 

Future Hospital

It should be noted that the names of individual employees of a Consultancy firm or Company constitute personal data, and as such this information would be absolutely exempt under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, even if the cost threshold was not exceeded in relation to this request.

Articles applied

Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting 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 by the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if-

(a) It constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined by the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) Its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that law.