Long Term Care Plan (FOI)

Request

Since the long term care plan came into fruition:

A

How many properties have been valued under £419,000?

B

How many properties have been valued over £419,000?

C

The number of persons cared for under the scheme (per year)?

Response

A and B

There is no single complete dataset of all property valuations information prior to 23 June 2017 which can be interrogated to comprehensively provide the information requested therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied, as the data is not held.

As of 29 April 2021 the numbers of property valuations held by Customer and Local Services (CLS) are:

Of the data we hold Pre-23 June 2017

• at or above £419,000 threshold: 228

• below £419,000 threshold: 402

Post- 23 June 2017

• at or above £419,000 threshold: 90 

• below £419,000 threshold: 104 

C

Numbers of Long Term Care (LTC) Claims are published annually as a CLS OpenData dataset. Data is available up to 2019 therefore Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Long-Term Care Statistics  

Number of LTC Claims for 2020 – 1379

Articles applied

Article 10 Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information.

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information,

it must inform the applicant accordingly.

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.