Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201- & Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201-

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A decision made 6 May 2015:

Ministerial decision reference MD-C-2015-0032
Decision summary title: Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201-and Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201- and Accompanying Reports
Decision summary author	Director, Corporate Policy, Chief Minister’s Department		Is the decision summary public or exempt?	Public
Report title: Register of Names and A Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201-; and Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201-; and Accompanying Reports
Report author or name of person giving report	As above		Is the report public or exempt?	Public
Decision and reason for the decision: Approval of the : Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201-; and Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201-, and Accompanying Reports for lodging, in order to: Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201-; to improve population-based cancer screening programmes and, in time, to support the overall accuracy of name and address and related basic information held by the Health and Social Services Department Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201-; to undertake feasibility work to support improvements in electoral registration
Resource implications: Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201-: The use of the registrable facts to support population-based cancer screening programmes will be undertaken by in-house resources within normal work schedules without additional costs. As to the broader financial and manpower implications of using the registrable facts to support the electronic patient system known as ‘Trakcare’, the costs of this are not yet determined, but do not arise directly from this Regulation - which enables rather than requires this work to be undertaken – and will be considered as part of overall ICT programmes within agreed budgets. Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201-: £5,200 has been allocated from the States Assembly budget for Association of Electoral Administrators to carry out the project with assistance from the Privileges and Procedures Committee, the Comité des Connétables, and relevant States Departments, in particular, the Population Office, the Chief Minister’s Department, and the Social Security Department.
Action required: (a) The Chief Minister decided to lodge ‘au Greffe’ the draft Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201- and the draft Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201- (b) The Greffier of the States to be requested to arrange for the Register of Names and Addresses (Access for Medical Purposes) (Jersey) Regulations 201- and the draft Register of Names and Addresses (Comparison with Electoral Registers) (Jersey) Regulations 201- to be lodged ‘au Greffe’ as soon as possible for debate as soon as possible.
Signature		Position Senator P F Routier M.B.E. Assistant Chief Minister

Date signed		Effective date of the decision