Shareholding in CleanTech Lithium plc (FOI)

Request

Please advise how the Chief Minister, Kristina Moore, acquired her shareholding in CleanTech Lithium plc and if these shares were given as a gift.

Response 

Information about each States member, including their declaration of interests, is presented on the States members’ page of the States Assembly website. Information for a particular member, including the declaration, can be reached by clicking on the member’s name via the link below. 

States Members' Page (statesassembly.gov.je) 

Under each Member’s profile there is a Declaration of Interest. Under Section 3 ‘Shareholdings’, members are required to provide the name and address of any company in which they, or their spouse or cohabitee, or both, whether jointly or separately, own shares exceeding:

(a) 1% or more of the issued share capital of the company; or

(b) £25,000 in value.

No further information is held by the Government of Jersey. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. 

Article applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.