Emergency calls for gas leaks (FOI)

Request

Please could you provide me with the following details: 

How many calls of suspected gas leaks were the emergency services called out to in Jersey over the last five years and how many of these were confirmed to be gas leaks? 

Please can you break the figures down by by month and year from January 2020- January 2025? 

Thanks!

Response

Number of incidents attended to a reported gas odour / leak:

2020 9

2021 10

2022 14

2023 51

2024 63

Jan 2025 14

Please see attached table for the monthly breakdown. 

Table.pdf

Island Energy are responsible for determining if these calls were confirmed to be gas leaks. Therefore the Government of Jersey so not hold this information and Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Island Energy are not subject to the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, however can be contacted on: 

Telephone: 01534 755500

Address:

Island Energy

La Rue Phillippe Durrell

La Collette, St Helier

JE2 3NX

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.​​