Canbedone productions (FOI)

Request

A

Has there been any correspondence or contact made between the Director of Canbedone productions and the Government of Jersey (GOJ) over the last seven years. If so, please could you provide this correspondence.

B

Has there been any correspondence or contact made between the GOJ or a member of Canbedone Productions over the last seven years? If so, please could you provide this correspondence.

C

Have there been any further efforts to retrieve or investigate the £200,000 grant given to Canbedone productions over the past seven years? If so, please provide a breakdown of what these efforts have been.

Response

A

There is no record of any correspondence between the Director of Canbedone Productions and the Government of Jersey over the last seven years. However, it is a matter of public record that there was oral contact with the Director of Canbedone Productions and GOJ during the first quarter of 2016, therefore Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

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B

There is no record of any correspondence made between the GOJ or a member of Canbedone Productions over the last seven years, other than the oral contact detailed in the response to question A above.

C

There is no record of further efforts to retrieve or investigate the £200,000 grant given to Canbedone Productions over the past seven years, nor since the answer to a previous Freedom of Information response concerning the preparation of audited accounts for Canbedone Ltd was published on 4 August 2015 which is available on www.gov.je. 

Preparation of audited accounts for Canbedone Ltd (FOI)

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.