LPG consumption by Government departments update (FOI)

Request

Please provide an update to the following previous Freedom of Information request from August 2023:

Please confirm the following annual statistics on LPG consumption procured by the Government of Jersey departments from Jersey Gas:

1

Per department: 

(i) Tariff type and £/kWh charged for mains gas supply

(ii) quantity of mains gas consumed, in ft3 and/or M3 (depending on meter type), per department

(iii) total sum of invoices paid. 

2

Per department: If consumption by bottle gas as opposed to mains gas

(i) Total kg consumed;

(ii) total sum of invoices paid.

3

Total sum paid by the Government of Jersey for all LPG mains gas and bottled gas consumed by all departments.

Response

1

The Government of Jersey does not maintain a record of the requested information broken down by department, therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The Government of Jersey’s systems are not configured in a way that will allow the extraction of the information requested.  A manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information. 

It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied and this part of the request will not be processed further.

It should be noted that the Government of Jersey does not hold any live Island Energy tariff information.

Island Energy is not covered by the Freedom of Information legislation.

2

The Government of Jersey does not maintain records regarding the consumption of bottled gas per department, therefore, this information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The Government of Jersey’s systems are not configured in a way that will allow the extraction of the information requested.  A manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information.

​It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied and this part of the request will not be processed further.

3

The total cost for LPG mains gas and bottled gas from 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023 is £741,319. 

The total cost from 1st January 2024 to 31st July 2024 is £537,993. 

This includes the standing charges and supply charges. 

Articles 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.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. ​