Pollution statistics from 2020- 2024

​​​Request ​778401830

On the 21st July 2021, a FOI response was published to a request for pollution statistics by type and location (https://www.gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=4788). I would like the same information but for the calendar years 2020,2021,2022,2023 and 2024 (five years).

Response

Pollution Control

Waste pollution incidents are recorded in a database with the Parish location, see attached.

Environmental Health 2020 to 2024 pol stats.pdf​

Housing and Nuisance

The data for 2020 – 2021 is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the information is accessible on www.gov.je within the previous Freedom of Information response linked below.

https://www.gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=4788​

The remaining data relating to Housing and Nuisance for the years 2022 – 2024, are exempt under Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as the current systems are not configured in a way that will allow us to extract the information, and a manual search of our records would be required.

It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014.

Articles applied

16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.[2]

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign,

the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(2) 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​.​