Emails and Minutes regarding funding for Jersey Reds (FOI)

Request

A

Please provide details of offers by Lucy Stephenson since November 2022 to meet with Jersey Reds (either by post, emails and any ohr means).  She has stated she made a number of offers to meet.

B

Please provide copies of the two emails sent to Kirsten Morel via Jersey Reds, with date after September funding meeting with dates sent and received, and date and email of his reply.

C

Please supply details of the Ministerial decision or other decisions Minuted, regarding funding to Jersey Reds in July and August which does not appear on the Government of jersey website.

Response

A

Email searches were performed using the auditable email archive service of the Government of Jersey. Email searches were performed on the account of the following.

Deputy Lucy Stephenson - l.stephenson@gov.je 

The keywords utilised within the searches were ‘Jersey Reds’, between the period 1 November 2022 and 4 October 2023.

All emails retrieved have been reviewed and extracted relevant email and written correspondence is attached.

Search 1_Redacted.pdf

Letter from Deputy Stephenson to Mark Chown.pdf

Limited personal data has been redacted under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

B

Email searches were performed using the auditable email archive service of the Government of Jersey. Email searches were performed on the account of the following.

Deputy Kirsten Morel - k.morel2@gov.je 

The keywords utilised within the searches were ‘Jersey Reds’, between the period 1 September 2023 and 4 October 2023.

All emails retrieved have been reviewed and extracted relevant email correspondence is attached.

Search 2_Redacted.pdf

Limited personal data has been redacted under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

C

The details of the ministerial decision will be published once approved. Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Articles applied

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 2018.

(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 2018; and

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

Article 36 - Information intended for future publication

(1) Information is qualified exempt information if, at the time when the request for the

information is made, the information is being held by a public authority with a view to its being published within 12 weeks of the date of the request.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground

must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant –

(a) of the date when the information will be published;

(b) of the manner in which it will be published; and

(c) by whom it will be published.

(3) In this Article, “published” means published –

(a) by a public authority; or

(b) by any other person.

Public Interest Test 

Article 36 is a qualified exemption, which means that a public interest test must be undertaken to examine the circumstances of the case and decide whether, on balance, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. 

Public interest considerations favouring disclosure: 

• Disclosure of the information would support transparency and promote accountability to the general public.

Public interest considerations favouring withholding the information:

• It is intended to publish the requested information within 12 weeks of the receipt of this request on www.gov.je. In it is reasonable for government to publish information in an orderly manner, following completion of appropriate internal processes, and publishing in advance, and in such close proximity to the expected publication date, would potentially undermine the orderly publication and conduct of government work (when the public benefit of earlier publication under the Law would derive limited benefit).