The Population Office (FOI)

​​Request

This FOI relates to the Population Office.

There is a process whereby the Population office will consider an elderly relative of a Jersey resident being able to transfer into a care home based upon three factors. Their ability to self fund, their links to the island and there being no waiting list at the home they wish to be transferred too.

Can you provide the following three pieces of information, per year for the past 10 years.

How many enquiries for this have been made.

How many applications have been made.

How many cases have been accepted.

Kind regards

Response

The information as requested is not held in a format for the purpose of Freedom of Information. It has been assessed that any information held would be on individual records and the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.

In addition, it is estimated that to interrogate these individual records would far exceed the time limits prescribed under Regulation therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has also been applied.

Articles 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.

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. ​