Electoral reform survey (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey on behalf of the States Greffe and published on 15 April 2020.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

​​Request

Please provide the questions asked of focus groups, online surveys and members of the public canvassed in the street in support of P126/2019.

Also, please provide the names of the persons carrying out the questions as addressed above.

Response

The Election Reform Results Presentation and the Election Reform Survey Results Presentation (both of which have been attached below) outline the methodology and questions used by 4Insight in the consultation it undertook for the Privileges and Procedures Committee in relation to ‘Electoral Reform 2020’ (P.126/2019).

Focus group results PPC Election Reform presentation 31 October 2019

PPC Election Reform Survey presentation 05 December 2019

Beyond the names of the authors of the two reports, the States Greffe does not hold any information regarding the identity of those people engaged in undertaking the consultation.

The names of the authors of the reports are exempt from disclosure under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

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 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.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.

This response has been issued on behalf of the States Greffe. The States Greffe is responsible for the information held by (and on behalf of) both itself and the States Assembly. Neither the States Assembly nor the States Greffe form part of the Government of Jersey and the Government was not involved either in the examination and retrieval of any information required for this response, nor in the drafting of the response itself.