Our Hospital project staff (FOI)Our Hospital project staff (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
17 September 2020.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please can you tell me the following:
A
How many civil servants are currently working on our hospital project?
B
How many consultants are currently working on our hospital project?
C
Of the people involved in questions A & B how many are permanent Jersey residents?
D
Of the people involved in questions A & B how many pay tax in Jersey?
E
Who decided on the new hospital sites to include in the short list of proposed sites?
F
What are the combined annual salaries of the people in questions A & B?
G
How much money has been spent on the “new” hospital project to date?
Response
A
The number of civil servants working on the Our Hospital project at any one time varies depending on the nature of the work required. At the time of this response, there are three full time civil servants and five working part-time on the project in the project team.
B
There are three consultants currently working on the Our Hospital project.
C
Residential status constitutes personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
D
Personal taxation constitutes personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
E
The process for shortlisting sites has already been published on gov.je in the following link:
F
Annual salaries constitute personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
G
The Our Hospital project expenditure from initiation in May 2019 to 31 July 2020 is in the sum of £4.2m.
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.
(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.
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.