Hospital project costs (FOI)

​​​Request

Please provide a breakdown of all expenses for the hospital project in full, including the current amount that has been spent.

Response

Our Hospital Project (OHP) – 2019 to 31 December 2022:

Details of expenditure for the OHP, from inception (2019) to 31 December 2022, has been provided in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in April 2023:

Hospital project spend (FOI)​

As this information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

As noted in the response linked above, the Head of Expenditure for the OHP was closed on 31 December 2022, in line with the amendment to the Government Plan and approval by States Assembly of Amendment 20 to the approved Government Plan: Hospital Funding, which can be accessed via the link below:

 Proposed Government Plan 2023-2026 – Hospital Funding.pdf (gov.je)​

New Healthcare Facilities (NHF) Programme – 1 January 2023 to current date: 

The Head of Expenditure for the NHF commenced from 1 January 2023. 

As of 31 December 2023, a total of £38.3 million has been spent on the NHF, giving a total expenditure for the OHP and NHF of £122.1 million to that date, £8.5 million of which related to project direct design and professional fees.

The following was paid from inception on 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 for the NHF direct design and professional fees, across the programme of projects:

Design and Professional Fees, including:

• Architect, Landscape Architect, Town and Healthcare Planner
• Multi-disciplinary Engineers
• Construction, Commercial and Project Management Office
• Cost Management and Finance Services
• Operational and Digital Strategies and Design Quality Assurance
• Land Assembly.
  

​Total costs: £ 8.5 million

For the part-year 2024, the expenditure to 31 August 2024 totals £13.7 million. This is all expenditure for the Programme, including acquisitions and physical works. This is a mid-year unaudited figure. The 2024 total audited figure will be published in the Annual accounts.

Financial information pertaining to the Future Hospital Project which preceded the OHP and NHF Programme is available at the following link, and therefore, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied:

Future Hospital projec​t team accounts (FOI)

​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.​​