Covid-19 transmission by industry (FOI)

Request

Please provide a breakdown of Coronavirus cases transmitted and spread per industry.

For example what % of active cases were as a result of travel / transmission in hospitality sector / essential shops / not essential shops / beauty salons / gyms / private households mixing, and so on, which then in turns supports Government's decisions and STAC's recommendations to keep certain establishments closed or open.

Response

The information requested is not held centrally.

The Scheduled Public Authority has concluded that information, as requested, is not held in a single recorded form. In order to answer the request a review of each individual’s case notes would need to be undertaken. Aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do the work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response.

Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Article applied

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.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.