Number of employees, size of grant and wages at Visit Jersey

​September 2025
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Request 749873569

How many people are employed at Visit Jersey, what was the amount of their grant last year and what was the total amount spent on wages for the department for the year and the anticipated cost this year.

Response

Visit Jersey is not a department of government: it is a separate limited company funded solely by a grant from the Department for the Economy under the non-staff expenditure component of the departmental budget. Visit Jersey received core grant funding of £4.72m for the 2025 financial year together with an additional £2m of funding through the Better Business Support Package.

The Department for the Economy staff cost budget for 2025 is £9.61m (vs £9.96m in 2024) across all areas of responsibility it holds for the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development and the Minister for External Relations.

Other elements of the requested information are publicly available therefore Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Links to documents in question have been provided below.

Government of Jersey 2024 Annual Report ​and Accounts

Visit Jersey 2024 Annual Report and Accounts

Articles applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means​

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information

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