Recruitment expenditure and agency staffing for JHA staff from 2021-2025

​​Request 735518235

Hello,
My request is as follows:
Justice & Home Affairs (JHA)
Subject: FOI Request – Recruitment Expenditure and Agency Staffing
Please provide the following information for the Department of Justice & Home Affairs (JHA) for each of the last four financialyears (2021‑22 to 2024‑25):

1. The total annual expenditure on recruitment, broken down by:
- Agency staffing (including probation, prison, police, ambulance, immigration)
- Advertising and marketing
- Relocation packages or bonuses
- External recruitment services or headhunting fees
- Any other recruitment‑related costs (please specify).
2. The number of agency workers engaged in each of those years, broken down by role type (e.g. probation, prison, police, ambulance, etc.).
3. Details of any master‑vendor or framework agreements for recruitment or agency staffing, including:
- Supplier name
- Start and end dates of the contract
- Total value of the contract (or approximate annual value).
Thank you for your help and time on this,
Kind Regards

Response

Please see attached table for answers to question 1 and 2 for Jersey Customs and Immigration Service (JCIS), States of Jersey Ambulance Service (SoJAS) and States of Jersey Prison Service (SoJPS).
Freedom of Informtion response 735518235 - Attachment.pdf​

Information on number of agency workers broken down by type for SoJAS is not held in recorded form as the request would require the extraction and manipulation of data. A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Role types included paramedics, administration, filing clerks and manual workers. 

3.

JHA, when required utilises the Government of Jersey (GoJ) corporate arrangements for provision of agency staff. The local suppliers are 1st Recruitment and ASL Recruitment International. The service commenced 2017 and ends in 2025.

A procurement exercise to retender these services is currently in flight and therefore providing details of contract value is not possible at this time. Therefore Article 33 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

There is no corporate contract for the provision of external recruitment services to GOJ.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority. 

Article 33 - Commercial interests 

Information is qualified exempt information if – 

(a)    it constitutes a trade secret; or

(b)    its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information). 

Public Interest Test

Article 33 is a qualified exemption and as such, a public interest and prejudice test has been conducted as required by law. 

When responding to requests of this nature, the Government of Jersey (“the Government") has to balance the public interest with the impact that disclosing this information would, or would be likely to, have upon the organisation and / or third parties. Whilst it may be in the public interest to understand contract values, protecting the commercial interests of the Government is an essential component in controlling public finances, which in itself is in the public interest. 

It has been concluded that disclosing contract values is likely to prejudice the commercial interests of the Government and the providers. When considering the application of this exemption, it has been determined that whilst it is in the public interest to disclose information, this is outweighed by the necessity to limit any impact on the commercial interests of the Government and third parties. The likely prejudice includes:

• Harm to the competitive position of suppliers

• Undermining the tendering process

• Suppliers could manipulate the market, potentially increasing costs for the Government or disrupting procurement processes

• Undermining the ability of the Government to negotiate favourable terms in future
  
  Therefore, Article 33 has been applied.​