Repair and maintenance costs for the General Hospital (FOI)

Request

Please provide for the General Hospital in Gloucester Street, the following information for each of the last 10 years

A

Total Repairs & Renewals

B

Total Maintenance

C

Total Capital expenditure

D

Total number of staff employed

E

Total Remuneration / Pensions cost for all staff employed

F

Any expenditure written off. This relates to work that was started on Gloucester Street, as being the New Hospital, and then all work had to be abandoned when a halt was ordered, and massive monies spent were written off. (I believe this figure is between £30 and £60 million).

I am just looking for the £ Totals for each question, to the nearest £10,000 will be fine too.

Response

A

Following a review of systems, it has been concluded that the information, as requested, is not held in recorded form. In order to answer the request, 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.

B

Following a review of systems, it has been concluded that the information, as requested, is not held in recorded form. In order to answer the request, 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.

C

Please find included in the table below the total Capital expenditure incurred by Health and Community Services (HCS) ,over the past ten years. Please note the question requests expenditure relating to the Gloucester Street site. Unfortunately, the majority of the capital spend is HCS site-wide and to obtain the detail to break this down by site for certain capital allocations over the period of time requested, would exceed the time limits prescribed under Regulation, therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

The detail for the above is however readily available to the public in the published accounts:

Annual Report and Accounts for the States of Jersey

D

Total Number of Staff Employed

This data is based on ‘Full Time Equivalent’ staffing numbers.

E

Total Remuneration / Pensions costs for all staff employed

This data is based on total staff costs for services based at the Jersey General Hospital. 2020’s data has the non-recurrent costs of the COVID-19 response excluded from it.

F

Information is publicly available on www.gov.je in response to a previous Freedom of Information request. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Breakdown of Future Hospital £40M spend (FOI)

Articles applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(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.

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.