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Fiscal Policy Panel

The Fiscal Policy Panel (FPP) was established to provide Jersey's Treasury and Resources Minister and States members with independent economic advice on matters relating to tax and spending policy, and the use of the Stabilisation Fund.

Panel biographies

The 3 members of the Fiscal Policy Panel are:

  • Joly Dixon CMG (Chairman)
  • Christopher Allsopp CBE
  • Marian Bell CBE
Joly Dixon CMG chairs Jersey's Fiscal Policy Panel. He worked for nearly 30 years at the European Commission, holding a variety of senior posts. He was Director for International Economic Affairs in the Department for Economic and Financial Affairs from 1992 to 2003. Prior to this he was in the private office of former Commission President Jacques Delors, advising the president on economic and monetary affairs.

Christopher Allsopp CBE is director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, a fellow of New College, Oxford and a reader in Economic Policy at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and a director of Oxford Economic Forecasting. In 2003 / 04 he conducted the Allsopp Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee (2000 to 2003) and of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England (1997 to 2000).

Marian Bell CBE is an economics consultant and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England (2002 to 2005). She has held posts at The Royal Bank of Scotland, where her roles included managing the Treasury and Capital Markets Research function, and at HM Treasury where she worked on modelling and forecasting the UK economy. Among her various other interests she is vice chair of the Contemporary Dance Trust at The Place.


FPP reports

Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report 2012 (size 893kb)
Download letter from Fiscal Policy Panel to the Treasury Minister May 2012 (size 120kb)
Download letter from the Treasury Minister to Fiscal Policy Panel April 2012 (size 104kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report update October 2011 (size 271kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report 2011 (size 712kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report 2010 (size 1.42mb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel interim report September 2010 (size 278kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report update November 2009 (size 915kb) 
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report May 2009 (size 1.4mb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel letter to the Treasury Minister March 2009 (size 64kb)
Download letter from the Treasury Minister to Fiscal Policy Panel March 2009 (size 516kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel update November 2008 (size 828kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel annual report 2008 (size 944kb)
Download Fiscal Policy Panel preliminary report April 2008 (size 34kb)



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