Staff employed at Fort Regent (FOI)

​​​Request

A

Please confirm how many staff are employed at Fort Regent? 

B

What is the annual cost of operating the facility? 

C

Please list job titles and grade bands for all employees with roles related to Fort Regent, and the total wage bill including pension and social security contributions.

D

Please indicate against any role whether they have permission to work from home, and the working from home policy applicable to Fort Regent staff.

Response

A

As at 12 March 2024 there are 12 Government of Jersey staff employed to run the sport facilities based at Fort Regent.

The staff operate on a rotating shift pattern, meaning there are only ever four staff on duty at once.

B

The following table provides the total operating costs for the years 2022 and 2023, this is net of operational income received and total running costs including the Government of Jersey sports staff:

An estimated figure has been provided for 2023, which was calculated using actual costs of the previous year (2022) plus an uplift to account for inflationary costs.

It has been estimated that to extract an accurate cost figure would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

C

The job titles of sports staff located at Fort Regent as at 12 March 2024 are detailed below.

• Duty Manager
• Standard Leisure Assistant

The requested Grade information is provided in the following table:

​Further information regarding the grades allocated to the above job titles is exempt from

release under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

The total Fort Regent staff costs for 2024 are currently not available, therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

However, the estimated Fort Regent sports staff cost for 2024 is £677,000.

It should be noted that the Fort Regent sport staff are on two-year fixed term contracts.

D

There is no separate working from home policy for the Fort Regent staff since Leisure Assistants and their duty managers cannot work from home as their roles are all on site at all times. 

Articles applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

​(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

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 2005.

(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 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.​