Emails relating to Shinzo 2020 to 2023 (FOI)Emails relating to Shinzo 2020 to 2023 (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
12 April 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please provide copies of emails mentioning [name redacted] or Shinzo sent between 2020 to 2023 in accounts from staff in the Customer and Local Services department.
These should include emails from the then Minister Judy Martin and the head of services Ian Burns as well as the then Economic Development Minister Lyndon Farnham as well as those from Paul McGinnety, Sophie Le Sueur, and Stephen Jackson?
Response
Please see emails attached. Redactions have been applied and some emails withheld due to Personal Information contained within. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Correspondence_Redacted.pdf
Some redactions have also been applied in accordance with Article 33(b) (Commercial Interests) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.
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 33 - Commercial interests
Information is qualified exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes a trade secret; or
(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).
Prejudice and Public Interest Test
The rates of the company undertaking the audit are commercially sensitive and therefore exempt from being disclosed.
The audit charges are commercially sensitive and could affect future tendering process if released, thereby increasing costs to the general public. This information also was not requested and was found only as part of an unrelated email chain.
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