Email correspondence with taxi and cab companies (FOI)

Request

Would you please provide me with the following information:

A

Email correspondence between Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVS) Civil Servants and the Minister for Infrastructure. The time frame for my request should cover 1 February 2015 to the Present day.

The emails should cover the people named below:

• Antoni Miziolek

• Chris Le Maistre

• Gordon Forrest

• DFI

• Eddie Noel

• Tristan Dodds

• Richard Rondel

The search should also cover all emails between each other ie Noel to Forest, Forest to Doods and so on.

B

Also any minutes from meetings held by the minister and his civil servants with taxi and cab company representatives. Please use the same time frame, 1 February to the present day.

The key words to search for are taxi and cab review, transport review, and taxi and cab reform.

C

Finally please could you also give the States of Jersey definition of the responsibilities of a Departmental regulator.

Response

A and B

This request is refused as it is estimated that to respond would exceed the time limit set of 12.5 hours in the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. However, in the spirit of Freedom of Information, please see attached response to a very recent request for information relating to Taxi-Cab Industry Review emails between Deputy Edward Noel, Minister for Infrastructure, Gordon Forrest and Antoni Miziolek.

Emails relating to the Taxi-Cab industry review (redacted) 20170808

C

The information requested is not held for the purposes of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as outlined in Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Exemption and Articles applied

Article 3 Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

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.