Senior employees declaration of financial interests (FOI)

Request

Which people in senior roles working within the Corporation 'Government of Jersey', (including all politicians, senior civil servant and senior roles in health) receive monies from pharmaceutical companies, testing device producers (PCR etc), health care corporations or PPE producers? The monies received can be as a result of being on a board or a consulting role for example, or any reason at all.

I am interested in who has vested interests in pharmaceutical companies, health care provider corporations, PP manufacturers / distributors etc or anything else 'sick people' related.

Response

We are not aware of any people in senior roles working within the Corporation 'Government of Jersey', (including all politicians, senior civil servant and senior roles in health) that have declared a financial interest relating to this request.

States Assembly Members, including Ministers, are required to register and declare their interests and registered interests are available to the public through the States Assembly website.

States Assembly Members (statesassembly.gov.je)

The Annual Report and Accounts refer to 'Related Party Transactions' (page 327 in 2020) which provides details of all financial transactions with entities identified as 'related parties' through their relationship with Directors (Executive Leadership Team) or Ministers and Assistant Ministers.

States of Jersey 2020 Annual Report and Accounts (gov.je)

The employee Code of Conduct refers to 'Honesty' (page 2) and 'Conflicts of Interest' (page 5). Employees must draw any potential conflict to their manager's attention in order that a decision may be taken on how to proceed.

Employee Code of Conduct (gov.je)

The Government does not hold any information of any officers or members working or representing the Government of States of Jersey regarding monies received from pharmaceutical companies, testing device producers (PCR etc), health care corporations or PPE producers. As the information is not held, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.