Bunker correspondence (FOI)

Request

Reference CMP/2020000141 (email from [name redacted])

Request who queried work which has been carried out at the bunker (as detailed on email sent) to Jersey Fortification Study Group, as the bunker has been under licence to the group for a while now, please can you forward the person who raised the issue.

Response

The query regarding the bunker was received via telephone but the individual’s name was not recorded, therefore, this information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

It should be noted that, if held, that this information would be exempt from release under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article 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.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it,the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.