Inflation Strategy Group (FOI)

Request

A

Please list all the members of the Inflation Strategy Group since 2018. If the membership has changed, please note list each member's dates of service.

B

Between 2018 and the present, how many times have the Group met? Please provide a breakdown by year.

C

For each meeting, please provide the minutes of each.

Response

A 

All the members of the Inflation Strategy Group since 2018 are listed below, together with their dates of service:

• Deputy Chief Minister, Inflation Strategy Group Chair, Senator Lyndon Farnham (Feb 2019 – present)
• Chief Minister, Senator John Le Fondré (Feb 2019 – present) 
• Minister for Treasury and Resources, Deputy Susie Pinel (Feb 2019 – present) 
• Minister for Education, Senator Tracy Vallois (May 2019 – Jan 2021) 
• Minister for Social Security, Deputy Judy Martin (March 2022 – present)

B 

• The Group was formed in February 2019, and no meetings took place in 2018
• in 2019, the Group met four times
• in 2020, all members of the Group attended a broader Council of Ministers meeting on the Group’s work
• in 2021, the Group’s work was again discussed at a broader Council of Ministers meeting, with all members attending
• in 2022, there have been no meetings to date, but the Group is due to meet on 28 March 2022.
  

C 

No minutes have been recorded for the Inflation Strategy Group meeting, therefore the information requested is not held and 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.