Channel Islands Brussels office costs (FOI)Channel Islands Brussels office costs (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
27 June 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
How much does the Channel Islands Brussels Office cost to run a year? (Please provide the latest figures you have for this and the figures for 2019 to 2023).
B
How is this office funded? How much is paid for by the States of Jersey and how much is paid for by the States of Guernsey?
C
Please provide the individual salaries paid to the four permanent members of staff.
Response
A
The Channel Islands Brussels Office (‘CIBO’) is jointly funded by the Government of Jersey and States of Guernsey. Grants provided to the Channel Islands Brussels Office from the Government of Jersey between 2019 and 2023 are as follows:
| Year | Running costs |
| 2023 | £359,000 |
| 2022 | £264,000 |
| 2021 | £319,000 |
2020
| £357,000 |
| 2019 | £291,000
|
B
The governments of Jersey and Guernsey share the costs of CIBO and Bureau des Îles Anglo-Normandes equally. Grant amounts paid by the Government of Jersey to CIBO between 2019 and 2023 are provided in the table above.
C
The Government of Jersey does not comment on individual contractual matters as this is personal information and would breach the privacy of the individuals concerned. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.
Article 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 2005.
(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 2005; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
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