Use of off-island architectural practices (1) (FOI)

Request

Further to the previous Freedom of Information request below, it is disappointing that the Government of Jersey holds no records of the information requested.

Use of off-island architectural practices (FOI),

Therefore, please provide a simpler level of detail by providing a list of the off-Island architects who have received payment for works or services for Island-based projects that relate to any States Department or Capital Projects since 2013.

Please also provide responses to the following questions:

A 

Please provide a list of the off-Island architects who are currently engaged by States Departments or Capital Projects.

B

How many are granted exemptions under the Public Finance Manual? Please give examples of the rationale behind each exemption.

C 

In each case, please advise what the construction development values, project names and dates are.

Response 

A to C

The Scheduled Public Authority has concluded that information, as requested, is not held in a single recorded form. In order to answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from multiple sources. It has been estimated that to retrieve this data would exceed the 12.5-hour timescale prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied 

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.