Contract staff at Growth Housing and Environment (FOI)

Request

There are three individuals who are on contracts for service with Growth Housing and Environment (earning over 100k). Can the details please be provided of their salaries, travel costs and accommodation costs, listed separately?

Response

The three posts referred to are -

• Interim Assistant Director Estates and Asset Management

• Programme Manager

• Project Director

This includes costs to the end of February 2019. The contracts had variable starting dates between July and November 2018.

Any further breakdown of the information requested is exempt under Article 25 (Personal Information) and Article 33 (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).

Article 33 (b) is a qualified exemption and a public interest test and prejudice test must therefore be applied. Article 33 (b) allows an authority to exempt information where its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).

Whilst we accept that the public may have an interest in the contracts between the Government of Jersey and service providers, including third party employment contracts, the Scheduled Public Authority believes that the contract values are commercially sensitive as they are the outcome of negotiations between parties and that the release of this data could affect the negotiation of future contracts.