Health and Community Services budget figures 2019 to 2023 (FOI)

Request

Please provide the budgeted Health and Community Services (HCS) management costs for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

B

Please identify and overspend in the HCS budget for 2O19, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

C

Please identify any underspend in the HCS budget for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Response

A

The budgeted management costs for Health and Community Services (HCS), as requested are detailed in the attached table.

HCS Management Budget 2019 - 2023.pdf

B

The topic of departmental overspends has been addressed in a previous Freedom of Information response, published on www.gov.je in November 2022:

Health and Community Services budget (FOI)

As this information is accessible by other means, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C

Detail of HCS underspends by year are as follows:

(As per annual Government of Jersey accounts, 2022 accounts are still pending final audit review).

* Includes £1,500,000 underspend on Jersey Care Model programme (ring-fenced funding, carried forward to 2022)

** Includes £3,054,000 underspend on Jersey Care Model programme (ring-fenced funding)

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.