Countries visited and related expenses (FOI)Countries visited and related expenses (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
20 December 2017.Request
A
How much taxpayers money has been spent on i) flights and hotels and ii) miscellaneous items such as meals, other transport, membership, entry fees and exhibition stands and so on for all States Departments and companies owned by the States of Jersey for each of the following:
- And 10 month period 1 January 2017 to 31 October 2017
B
Please provide a list of countries visited and how many times (if applicable) for all States Departments and companies owned by the States of Jersey for each of the following:
- And 10 month period 1 January 2017 to 31 October 2017
Response
We are unable to process your request in the form submitted and your request is therefore refused. Please note that your request would fall well outside the 12.5 hour limit stipulated in Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (FOI Law).
- the terms of your request are exceedingly wide reaching and would involve each department of the States of Jersey undertaking a substantial amount of work
- information may not be available to answer this question in a form which can facilitate a reply. Under the FOI Law, the scheduled public authorities are not obliged to manipulate or create new data in order to respond to a request
- part 1(b) of your request is unclear as to the items required to be identified and could involve the review of individual receipts. As such 1(b) would not be possible within the time limit.
Please also note that subsidiaries of the States of Jersey (SOJ) do not fall under the FOI Law and we would therefore be unable to provide the requested information in relation to subsidiaries of SOJ.
Further to the above, please note that there is a substantial amount of information already available that may assist you with parts of your request. Please find below links to relevant information:
Review of travel costs; figures for flights and expenses for 2014 to 2015 are included within the following report. Destinations could also be extrapolated:
Review of travel policy and recommendations for improvement
Other useful information:
Cost of travel over £500 for June to December 2016
Purchase card allocation and usage (2016 to 2017)
Purchase card allocation and usage (2014 to 2015)
Article and regulation applied
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.
Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
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