Money paid to telecommunications companiesMoney paid to telecommunications companies
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Treasury and Exchequer and published on
27 June 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 718845045
Under the FOI Act, I would like to request the total amount you have paid to telecommunications companies for services including, but not limited to call records, personal details and movements of customers in each of the last 5 full financial years (2020/21-2024/25).
Response
In order to gather the requested information, transactional data was pulled for all suppliers in relation to the following services:
Wholesale of electronic and telecommunications equipment and parts
Wired telecommunications activities
Retail sale of telecommunications equipment other than mobile telephones
Wireless telecommunications activities
Other telecommunications activities
Retail sale of mobile telephones
The total amount recorded on Government of Jersey systems as having been paid for the services outlined above, for the last five full financial years, is detailed in the table below.
Total by Year
|
| Year | Sum of total spend |
| 2024 | £7,652,167.19 |
| 2023 | £6,907,925.00 |
| 2022 | £6,673,211.03 |
| 2021 | £7,696,132.41 |
| 2020 | £7,450,376.48 |
| Grand Total | £36,379,812.11 |
Due to the way the data is recorded, is it not possible to provide a breakdown of the spend to categorise by the specific services described in the request.
Please note that data in relation to the total amount of money paid by the Government of Jersey to JT Group Limited and any of its subsidiaries, for telecommunications and related services, is detailed in the answer to a previous Freedom of Information request, as linked below.
gov.je