Staff in Department for Sustainable Economic Development (FOI)

Request 688740135

Q1. How many people were employed within the the Department for Sustainable Economic Development on 1 January 2024 and employed at 31 January 2025?

Q2. The answer to Question 1 will show a net gain or decrease in numbers. How many new appointments were made and how many left the department? 

Q.3 In terms of the leavers in Question 2, how many were resignations, transfers to other departments within government, redundancies and leavers for other reasons such as compromise agreements?

Q4. Based on Question 3, how much was paid in redundancies and compromise agreements?

Response

A1. 77 employees were employed at the Department for the Economy in January 2024. 77 employees were employed in January 2025.

A2. Comparing the headcount data from January 2024 with January 2025, there was no increase or decrease in headcount. However, 13 new appointments were made and 13 people left the Department for the Economy.

From the 13 leavers, <5 transferred to a different department within the Government of Jersey, the other leavers left the Government.

A3. The leaver categories include:  resignations, transfers to other departments within the Government, redundancies, leavers for other reasons. 

Each of the above-mentioned leaver category has a figure of <5.

A4. £157,987.85 was paid in redundancies and compromise agreements.

Where numbers are small in response to Q2 & Q3, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

​Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information 

((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.