Questions

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• Title:	User pays charges
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Sam Mézec
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	12/05/2015
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … The Chief Minister says that he is going to consult not only with the States but also with …

• Title:	Update on pay negotiations with public sector workers with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	17/04/2012
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): The States Employment Board has received pay … Senator I.J. Gorst: I am sure there is no Member in this Assembly that requires me to …

• Title:	Proposals for changes to public sector employees terms and conditions with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	06/03/2012
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): The 2012 and 2013 public sector negotiations are … Senator I.J. Gorst: As I said right at the start to a question that a fellow Deputy put …

• Title:	Use of Data Protection Law to prosecute former Senator S. Syvret including supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Trevor Pitman
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	10/12/2013
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): A data controller is a person who determines the … Senator I.J. Gorst: I am not sure the question is a question for me. The question is why …

• Title:	9756 Response of the States Employment Board to the findings of the States of Jersey Complaints Board in R.75/2016
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	12/12/2016
  Reference:	OQ.9756/2016

  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … The reasons why the States Employment … to go further because I will give notice to the Chief Minister I am bringing a vote of no confidence in …

• Title:	Was the former Minister for External Affairs informed about the raid on the German Consuls house last year with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Trevor Pitman
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	21/02/2012
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): This question relates to an ongoing operational … Senator I.J. Gorst: I do not think that I can add to the answer that I gave some moments …

• Title:	Difference between a criminal and regulatory breach of Data Protection (Jersey) Law, with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Trevor Pitman
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	08/10/2013
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): The Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005 is … The Chief Minister cannot keep getting away with it week-after-week because he cannot …

• Title:	USA FATCA and impact of UK FATCA on Jersey finance sector with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	04/12/2012
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): Following consultation with the finance industry … Senator I.J. Gorst: It is neither a position of opting in or opting out; we have made it …

• Title:	Questions to Minister without notice Chief Minister
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Questions without notice
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	06/11/2007
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  for the Minister for Health we come to the second question period for the Chief Minister … 4.2 Deputy I.J. Gorst: Does the Chief Minister agree that the siting of a mobile animal …

• Title:	Rationale and criteria for sending Jersey delegation to UK party political conferences with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Philip Rondel
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	18/06/2013
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  Does the Chief Minister agree that we should be working with politicians who are … Senator I.J. Gorst: The only individual I believe that can summon this Chief Minister is Her Majesty …

• Title:	127. Measures to meet the targets of delivering £70 million in 'people savings' and of re-establishing a partnership with public sector representatives
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	14/02/2017
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … Does that mean anything to you, Chief Minister … I wonder if the Chief Minister would clarify his figures of a 4 per cent wage award given …

• 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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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … I would just like to remind the Chief Minister that one year does not constitute a trend …

• Title:	Terms of Reference of Steel Report and outcome of the Review including supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	John Le Fondré
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	02/12/2013
  Reference:

  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): As noted in the public statement issued by the … Does the Chief Minister agree that it is only by enacting at the same speed and releasing …

• Title:	The effect of the proposed career average pension scheme on women including supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	18/03/2014
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): No, I do not consider the proposed changes to be … Senator I.J. Gorst: Of course it may surprise the Deputy to hear that I am not a reader of …

• Title:	Guernsey's Zero Ten stance with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	31/01/2012
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): I understand that Guernsey has made a submission … Senator I.J. Gorst: I am not sure what it is that I have to be relieved about …

• Title:	The Council of Ministers agreed to double the number of people with disabilities employed by the States Employment Board during 2008, how many additional people have been employed
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Ian Gorst
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	21/10/2008
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  4.1 � Deputy I.J. Gorst of the Chief Minister regarding the employment of people with … Can the Chief Minister confirm that those 20 newly employed individuals with disabilities …

• Title:	Deputy G.P. Southern of St. Helier of the CM re pay budgets in the 2015
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	09/09/2014
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … As Chief Minister I do not often get the opportunity to electioneer and be political but I …

• Title:	(445) An update on the work of the Student Financing Sub-Committee
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Louise Doublet
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	18/07/2017
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … Given that is the case, why has the Chief Minister kept with those Ministers if they are not …

• Title:	(9401) Explanations received from the Jersey Financial Services Commission regarding reasons for the establishment of Panamanian companies by Jersey registered companies
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	26/04/2016
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  Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister … I would like to know why the Chief Minister is so confident in that statement he has just …

• Title:	Justify the stance of maintaining a pay freeze in the public and private sectors with supplementary questions
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Chief Minister
  Question date:	01/05/2012
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  2.14 Deputy G.P. Southern of the Chief Minister regarding the pay freeze in the public and … Senator I.J. Gorst (The Chief Minister): I appreciate this is a difficult time for all …