Meeting with UK Justice Minister attendees (FOI)

Request

According to a Government press release, the UK Justice Minister, Mike Freer MP met Government of Jersey Ministers at Broad Street on Wednesday 2 November 2022, including the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for External Relations.

Without any exceptions, please confirm all the other attendees who were present at this meeting, and their job titles.

Response

Those present at the meeting: 

• Director General, Ministry of External Relations – Kate Nutt 
• Head of UK and European Affairs -– Ministry of External Relations 
• UK Affairs Officer, Ministry of External Relations 
• Head of International Trade Unit, Ministry of External Relations 
• Private Secretary to the Minister for External Relations 
• Director of Financial Services- James Silverston 
• Head of Crown Dependencies Team, Ministry of Justice (UK) 
• Assistant Private Secretary to Mike Freer MP, Ministry of Justice (UK) 

Employee names constitute their personal data. Government of Jersey employees below the level of Tier 1 and Tier 2 are protected from identification for the purposes of Freedom of Information disclosure, and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article 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.