Request
A.
How much money has been spent employing FOI staff across the States of Jersey?
B.
How many staff have been employed to tackle FOI requests across the States of Jersey?
C.
What is the salary range of a FOI employee (from lowest to highest)?
D.
Which States of Jersey department has employed the highest amount of FOI staff?
E.
How many FOI staff could be classed as young adults (16 - 25 years of age)?
F.
What would you describe as the most common age range of FOI employees?
Response
A.
FOI staff costs:
| Year | £'000s |
| 2012 | 6,000 |
| 2013 | 73,000 |
| 2014 | 953,000 |
| 2015 | 291,000 |
| Total | 1,323,000 |
In order to be as accurate as possible accruals have been included.
These amounts include the salaries of staff that have been seconded to this work.
At this time all FOI funding ends at the end of 2015.
B.
29 supporting the FOI programme in various capacities for various lengths of time.
This number includes staff seconded to this work.
The Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been one of several drivers for the States to review how information is managed, stored, accessed and made available within the States of Jersey. Staff involved with FOI work have spent a large amount of time improving the records management, data security, data management, proactive publishing of information and providing information management training in business areas to prepare for the 1 January 2015 Law implementation. Legal and regulatory support has also been provided by staff. In 2015 this information work continues but staff now also respond to FOI requests.
C.
Grade 5 – Grade 11
D.
All staff have been initially recruited via the Chief Minister’s Department (CMD) and then placed in relevant departments throughout the States of Jersey. CMD has the largest number of temporary staff due to the fact that the Central FOI Unit sits within the Chief Minister’s Department.
E.
Staff are not required to provide their age when applying for jobs with the States of Jersey.
F.
Staff are not required to provide their age when applying for jobs with the States of Jersey.
