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School bus funding during lockdown (FOI)

School bus funding during lockdown (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 09 June 2020.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

A

Are Liberty Bus still being paid for school buses whilst Schools are closed due to COVID-19?

B

How much does the Education Department or other States department pay yearly for this service?

Response

The information you have requested is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is already accessible to you on www.statesassembly.je within the responses to previous written questions (WQ). These can be accessed using the following links:

A

WQ.158/2020 dated 12 May 2020

B

WQ.186/2019 dated 30 April 2019

Please note that the costs of the school service cannot be disaggregated from the contract as a whole.

Supplementary information on Covid-19 and payments to Liberty Bus can also be found at the following link:

Government support for bus service

Article 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.

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