Genocide funding in Palestine (FOI)

​​​Request

A

Is any taxpayer’s money being used to find the genocide in Palestine?

B

Is any taxpayer’s money being sent to the UK government to fund the genocide in Palestine?

C

Please confirm the Government of Jersey's stance on the genocide? 

Response

A and B

This information is publicly available in response to a previous Freedom of Information request. Please see the link below: 

Government of Jersey Investments with links to Israel or Hamas (FOI)

​C

The requested information is publicly available in the form of the States Assembly debate: P.7/2024 on 27 February 2024, at the end of which the States Assembly voted to pass an amended Proposition.  A copy of the amended Proposition is available on the website of the Ministry of External Relations as per the link below: 

Letter from the Minister for External Relations to the UK Crown Dependencies Minister (gov.je)​

Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.​