Outstanding Business ITIS and Social Security contributions (FOI)

​​​​Request

A

Please advise how many hospitality businesses have folded with employees’ ITIS,  and employers’ and employees’ social security contributions being unpaid.

B

Please confirm the financial amounts for outstanding ITIS and Social Security contributions?

​Response

The Government of Jersey does not maintain data in such a form to be able to provide a full list of businesses that have folded. The requested information is therefore not held, and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The figures referred to in the request entered the public domain as part of Petty Debts proceedings. The Government does not publish information on individual unpaid debts.

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.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.