CEO and New River correspondence 1 (FOI)

​Request

Please can you provide copies of all email and written correspondence between Charlie Parker and Senator John Le Fondré, Senator Lyndon Farnham, and all members of the States Employment Board (including any lay members) including the terms "New River", "NewRiver", "directorship", "non-executive director", "NED", "appointment", "conflict", "charity", "charities", "statement".

Response

Searches were undertaken on the email accounts of Charlie Parker, Senator John Le Fondre, Senator Lyndon Farnham and members of the States Employment Board for the period 1 January to 10 November 2020.

Relevant emails are provided in the PDF attachments below:

Email correspondence 1

Email correspondence 2

Email correspondence 3

Email correspondence 4

Email correspondence 5

The attachments have been redacted in accordance with the Article 25 (Personal Information), Article 26 (Information supplied in confidence) and Article 39 (Employment) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. Duplicates, and emails that are entirely exempt, have been removed.

Note

Article 25 is an absolute exemption, and therefore does not require a public interest test. However, it is noted that minimal personal information has been redacted within the emails, such redactions limited to the names and roles of less senior members of staff and certain third parties. Telephone numbers have also been redacted.

Articles 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.

Article 26 Information supplied in confidence

Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it was obtained by the scheduled public authority from another person (including another public authority); and

(b) the disclosure of the information to the public by the scheduled public authority holding it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person.

Article 39 Employment

Information is qualified exempt information if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice pay or conditions negotiations that are being held between a public authority and –

(a) an employee or prospective employee of the authority; or

(b) representatives of the employees of the authority.