Costings spent by JHA on the ESCC

Please provide Year by Year information on costings spent by JHA on the ESCC for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date on the ‘ICCS’ Project, breaking down costs for equipment and licensing and associated staff costings.  

Please also provide costs for staff overtime paid to staff on Grades 7, 8 and 9 for the above years.  

Please also advise whether the former ESCC Manager was paid any compensation package on being released from Government in 2025.  

The Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) has concluded that the disclosure of the year-on-year breakdown of the ICCS project would be likely to prejudice commercial interests, therefore Article 33 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

2020-2025 (to date) overtime costs: 

​​Overtime details: 

Information regarding specific individuals is absolutely exempt as it constitutes personal data and therefore Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018. 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – (a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law. 

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate 

interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted. 

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). 

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 SPA 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 the breakdown of expenditure on projects, 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 cost details is likely to prejudice the commercial  interests of the Government and the provider. 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:  ​

Therefore, Article 33 has been applied.  ​​