Payroll co-funding details (FOI)

Request

A

How many applications have been received for payroll co-funding, citing what level of detriment, each month since the payroll co-funding scheme was approved?

B

How much has been paid out in payroll co-funding so far since the start of the pandemic?

C

How many people have been asked to repay payroll co-funding they have received?

D

What is the total value of payroll co-funding that has been requested to be repaid so far?

E

How much of the required repayments remains outstanding?

F

How many random audits have been conducted of Jersey businesses since the pandemic began compared to the previous 12-month period?

G

How are the requests for repayment classed- are they deemed to be fraudulent claims or mistakes?

H

How many fraudulent claims have been investigated / uncovered since the start of the pandemic

Response

Following a review of systems, it has been concluded that the information, as requested, is not held in recorded form for requests A and C to H. For these questions, the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do that work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

For question B of the request please see Pages 4 and 14 of the following link:

Statistics Jersey - December 2020

Article applied:

Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

(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.