Request
‘On the 26th March 2019 the Minister of Infrastructure incorrectly informed the States Assembly re his response to the written question QW.154/2019. Who and what was the source of this information? Please provide all emails, notes of meeting and other forms of information on which the Minister relied on order to make his statement.
Response
A redacted copy of an email that was considered as part of the Ministers answer to item (d) of the written Question QW.154/2019 is available through the following link:
Correspondence re QW 154/2019
Personal information has been redacted in accordance with Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011
Article applied
Article 25 Personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.
