States Assembly publication

​Request 759261028

The States Assembly issued a publication with the parish references incorrect placing St Lawrence to the North. Can you provide the grade and the salary of the person who approved this for print or publication? Can you also confirm what department and the location (jersey or outside) of the person who provided the final sign off was.

Response

Information on the grade and salary of individuals involved in this work is exempt under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

The St. John, St. Lawrence and Trinity constituency newsletter was developed, reviewed and approved by States Greffe staff located in Jersey. The material was also provided prior to publication to those elected Members who were covered in the newsletter.

Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(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 2005.

(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 2005; 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.

This response has been issued on behalf of the States Greffe. The States Greffe is responsible for the information held by (and on behalf of) both itself and the States Assembly. Neither the States Assembly nor the States Greffe form part of the Government of Jersey and the Government was not involved either in the examination and retrieval of any information required for this response, nor in the drafting of the response itself.