Savings, efficiencies and improvements in Government Services (FOI)

Request

Please identify credible savings, efficiencies and improvements in government services to the public created under Charlie Parker's tenure.  Please provide as many as can be identified within the Freedom of Information constraints.

Response

Please find the links below which provide the published documents on the delivery of savings, efficiencies and improvements in Government Services. As this information is already publicly available, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The efficiencies programme for 2020 to 2023 has been outlined within the ‘Efficiencies Plan 2020-23’. This sets out the programme and provides more detail on the efficiencies agreed for delivery in 2020.

Government publishes Efficiencies Plan 2020-23

The six month Progress report provided an update on the delivery of 2020 efficiencies, including the impact of covid-19 at the point of publication.

Six month progress report

In the 2020 Annual Report and Accounts, there is a section on ‘Delivering the Efficiencies Plan for 2020’

2020 Annual Report and Accounts

The Government Plan 2021 to 2024 details the efficiencies and rebalancing measures for delivery in 2021.

Government Plan

Article applied

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.