Refreshment costs (FOI)

​​​Request

Please advise how much is spent on tea, coffee, malk and sugar for all Government of Jersey departments.

​Response

The figures provided include governmental stores procurement both for Government of Jersey staff and for use in Schools and for patients in Medical Care (as applicable), as well as departmental specific spend for 2023.

For the tea, coffee, milk, and sugar expenditure please note the following:   

Coffee and tea spend - £88,742 

• Excludes water coolers and coffee machine rental.
• Excludes price of coffee cups and flasks.
• Excludes spend from events which cannot be segregated out. 

Milk spend - £80,013*

*It is not possible to separate the cost of milk used in beverages from that used for any other purpose, e.g., for catering purposes. 

• Excludes circumstances that do not fit requirement, such as: Milk Chocolate, baby milk, milk shakes, milk tests etc.
• Excludes circumstances where milk was brought on an ad-hoc basis in addition to other products.  
• Milk delivery has been included. 

Sugar spend - £24,996* 

*it is not possible to separate the cost of sugar used in beverages from that used for any other purpose, e.g., for catering purposes. 

• Included Artificial sweetener within the sugar category. 
• Excluded circumstances that do not fit the requirement, such as: sugar paper, icing sugar, sugar free squash  and so forth.

Total Spend - £193,751 

Please note that there have been a number of changes in approaches and procurement strategies since the information provided in 2016, so the figures cannot be compared like for like.​