Equine grazing land in Jersey (FOI)

​Request​ 702197932

What percentage of land is taken up by horses - stabling, grazing and equine activities.

Please could I also ask for a separate percentage for the grazing of horses.

Response

The information requested is not held due to 40% of Jersey’s farmland not being within the remit of the Agricultural Land (Control of Sales and Leases) (Jersey) Law 1974. The data set which is collected relates to enterprises on the Rural Support Scheme which represents approximately 25,000 vergees from the total Island farmland area of 33,000 vergees, of which (in 2023) approximately 325 vergees was used for equine grazing.  Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information Jersey (Law) 2011 has been applied.

Article 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.​