Our Hospital project staff (FOI)

Please can you tell me the following:

A
How many civil servants are currently working on our hospital project?
B
How many consultants are currently working on our hospital project?
C
Of the people involved in questions A & B how many are permanent Jersey residents?
D
Of the people involved in questions A & B how many pay tax in Jersey?
E
Who decided on the new hospital sites to include in the short list of proposed sites?
F
What are the combined annual salaries of the people in questions A & B?
G
How much money has been spent on the “new” hospital project to date?

A
The number of civil servants working on the Our Hospital project at any one time varies depending on the nature of the work required.  At the time of this response, there are three full time civil servants and five working part-time on the project in the project team.

B
There are three consultants currently working on the Our Hospital project.

C
Residential status constitutes personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

D
Personal taxation constitutes personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

E
The process for shortlisting sites has already been published on gov.je in the following link: 

The identities of the Site Shortlisting Panel have already been published on 26 August 2020 in response to a previous Freedom of Information request which can be found at the following link:
Shortlisting panel members for the Our Hospital project (FOI)

F
Annual salaries constitute personal data and therefore Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

G
The Our Hospital project expenditure from initiation in May 2019 to 31 July 2020 is in the sum of £4.2m. 

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