Departmental expenditure as a % of GDP (FOI)

Request

Please may you provide a breakdown of the States of Jersey expenditure on each Government Department as a % of GDP for the last three available years?

Response

The Treasury and Resource Department does not hold this information however the information that is required for the analysis is available on the gov.je website. The relevant links are included below.

Article 23  of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (Accessible by other means)  has been applied as the States of Jersey Financial Reports and Accounts are publicly available and provide a full analysis of budget and actual spend at a departmental level, total for all departments (revenue) and for each capital project allocation.

States of Jersey accounts 

The States of Jersey Statistics Unit produces an annual report on GVA and GDP which for 2015 and 2016 can be found at the following links:

Measuring Jersey’s economy: GVA and GDP 2015

Measuring Jersey’s economy: GVA and GDP 2016

GDP figures for 2017 will not be published until 3 October 2018.

Article applied

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the inform