Consultation concerning a National Day and a Jersey Anthem (FOI)Consultation concerning a National Day and a Jersey Anthem (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
17 April 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 698291271
Please provide all data gathered during the recent consultation conducted by the Minister for International Development concerning a National Day and a Jersey Anthem.
Specifically, I request a breakdown of all alternative suggestions for a Jersey Anthem (other than “Beautiful Jersey”), including the number of respondents who made each suggestion.
I would appreciate if this data could be provided in an accessible format, such as a spreadsheet or similar.
Response
It is not possible to provide all the raw data (including comments) collected by the consultation survey for the following reasons due to the excessive amount of time it would take to collate and analyse the raw data. For this reason Article 16 of the Freedom of Information Law has been applied.
However, we can provide the following detail:
Total Responses (2,466)
|
| | Yes | No | Unsure |
| Liberation Day | 2007 | 203 | 256 |
| Beautiful Jersey | 1237 | 870 | 359
|
| Song | Number of Responses (Online Survey) |
| Beautiful Jersey | 541 |
| God Save the King | 39 |
| Ma Normandie | 15 |
| Island Home | 12 |
| Take That Grouville | 8 |
| Proud to be a Bean | 3
|
This is a breakdown of online survey responses. Note that not all respondents expressed a preference for an anthem in the survey. Bulk responses from the same IP address were counted as one response.
The consultation also received 1,252 paper responses which have not been included in this breakdown for the reason explained above.
Article applied
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
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(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.
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(a) by one person; or
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