Questions

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• Title:	Social Security Departments use of staff employed through an agency on zero hours contracts
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  There might be no questions from Reform Jersey today if I do not get rid of this frog … Right, I think that is a dead frog … Does the Minister consider that the Social Security …

• Title:	Rationale underpinning proposals to freeze tax thresholds for the over 65s
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  I shall try not to transgress any rules … Will the Minister explain the rationale that underpins his proposals to freeze the tax thresholds for over 65s, along with the short and …

• Title:	Mobile roaming charges
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Minister for Economic Development
  Question date:	03/11/2015
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  Hopefully a little bit less controversial … Following the news that mobile roaming charges are being abolished across the European Union, could the Minister inform Members whether …

• Title:	Impact of Income Support cuts upon the mental health of vulnerable residents
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:	Minister for Health and Social Services
  Question date:	03/11/2015
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  3.2 Deputy M. Tadier of the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the impact … Can the Minister advise whether the mental health of some of Jersey’s most vulnerable …

• Title:	Dame Heather Steels report concerning the Deans handling of an abuse complaint
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  Will the Chief Minister advise why he, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and the Bailiff met the Archbishop of Canterbury to seek the release of Dame Heather … Deputy M. Tadier …

• Title:	Impact of the phasing out of lone parent component of Income Support on single parent households living in relative low income
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  Can I thank Members for allowing me to take this question last; I was held up by a personal matter that I had not foreseen occurring … In the light of the figures revealed in the …

• Title:	Information provided to benefits recipients by the Social Security Department
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Minister for Social Security
  Question date:	03/11/2015
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  What efforts, if any, has the Social Security Department made to inform benefits recipients of the full implications of the cuts to their benefits beginning on 1st January next …

• Title:	Welfare payments for vulnerable members of the community
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Judy Martin
  Answered by:	Comité des Connétables
  Question date:	03/11/2015
  Reference:

  Will the Chairman advise what discussions, if any, have taken place with the Social Security Department following the suggestion by the … 3.1.4 Deputy M. Tadier of St. Brelade …

• Title:	Requirements for drivers to report accidents involving animals to the police
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Peter McLinton
  Answered by:
  Question date:	03/11/2015
  Reference:

  Following recent publicity regarding the alleged cruel treatment of a cat which had been run over and euthanized at the side of the road by the driver, would the Minister consider …

• Title:	Income inequality in Jersey
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  Following the announcement that income inequality in Jersey is now worse than the United Kingdom and that the number of people living in relative low income has gone up over the …

• Title:	Implications of a decision of Mexicos Supreme Court regarding access to cannabis
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:
  Question date:	17/11/2015
  Reference:

  3.4 Deputy M. Tadier of the H.M. Attorney General regarding the implications of a decision … Following the recent decision of Mexico’s Supreme Court that access to cannabis is a …

• Title:	Jersey retail gas prices
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:	Minister for Economic Development
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  3.7 Deputy M. Tadier of the Minister for Economic Development regarding Jersey retail gas … In light of the continuing fall of wholesale gas prices in the United Kingdom by up to a …

• Title:	Options for reforming the conveyancing system
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Andrew Lewis
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	17/11/2015
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  Given that currently home buyers can withdraw from a property transaction as late as the day that the transaction goes to court, incurring significant legal fees, wasting the …

• Title:	Projected profits in relation to the Jersey International Finance Centre
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Jackie Hilton
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	03/11/2015
  Reference:

  How does the Minister justify an increase of approximately £50 million in projected profits in relation to the Jersey International Finance Centre compared to earlier forecasts …