Government of Jersey

Annual cash spends on Playing Fields and Schools Sports

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Children, Young People, Education and Skills and published on 27 February 2026.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request 793591380

Provide for years 2012 to 2024, the annual cash spends on: • Playing Fields and Schools Sports

Response

Cash spends on grounds maintenance (including Playing Fields) are charged under one accounting code for an entire school. To extract details specific to playing fields would require obtaining and analysing individual invoices and huge volumes of transactions. This exercise would exceed the timeframes provided to respond to Freedom of Information requests. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

Information in relation to School Sports costing is not held in an extractable format. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

Articles 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 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) 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.