Government of Jersey

Our Hospital site options (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 09 September 2020.
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Request

Please confirm the reasons behind taken the General Hospital + Cyril Le Marquand (Dual Site) off the original list of site options for the new hospital?

Response

The information requested is exempt under Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as it is accessible to the requester within www.gov.je and is available on page 24 of the site short list report.

For reference, the sizes of both hospital footprint options are on page 6 of the report in the following link:
Our Hospital Site Shortlisting Report

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.