Annual cost of Jersey International Air Display (FOI)

​​Request

A.

Please disclose the annual accounts for the Jersey International Air Display (for the last five years).

B.

Please also disclose how much taxpayer funding it has received in each of the last five years.

Response

A.

The Jersey International Air Display ARL (JIAD) received grant funding from the Economic Development department between 2010 and 2013 and from the Ports of Jersey in 2014, in accordance with States Treasury Financial Directions.

Disclosure of the annual accounts for 2010 and 2011 is exempt under Article 26 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. See exemption details below.

In 2009, it was agreed that all organisations receiving grants from the States, over
£100,000, would have their accounts available for publication as a report to the States through the States Greffe. As the grant paid to the JIAD was £100,000 or below in 2010 and 2011 these accounts were not published and were supplied to Economic Development in confidence.

Disclosure of the annual accounts for 2012 and 2013 is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. See exemption details below.

The accounts for organisations that received a grant over £75,000 (reduced from £100,000 in 2012) from the States are available as a report to the States listed in the appendix of the States of Jersey Financial Report and Accounts.

States Assembly reports

Due to the volume of information, copies of the grant accounts are not attached to the report but can be obtained in electronic or hard copy format from the States Assembly Information Centre, States Greffe, on the Ground Floor of Morier House.

At the time of this response, Ports of Jersey has not yet received the annual accounts for 2014.

B.

Over the last five years to 31 December 2014, the JIAD received grants totaling £480,000. Here is the breakdown.

Exemptions

FOI exemptions applied:

Article 26 Information supplied in confidence

Information is absolutely exempt information if (a) it was obtained by the scheduled public authority from another person (including another public authority); and (b) the disclosure of the information to the public by the scheduled public authority holding it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person.

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge. A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant