Guernsey · Charter
Our charter
The scorecard asks deputies to keep their promises, so we publish ours. These are the commitments we make to every deputy and every reader. The detail behind each one is in the methodology, the FAQs and the corrections log.
We take no money for it
No deputy, party, States committee or campaign funds the scorecard. Nobody pays to appear on it, and nobody pays to have an entry changed. It has no connection to any of our clients, past or present. If any of that ever changes, we will say so on this page before it takes effect.
We work only from the public record
Every verdict, figure and quote traces to something already published: the States’ voting record, Hansard, committee minutes, gov.gg, the manifestos deputies put to voters, or a named news report. Each one is shown with its source. Nobody is scored on a leak or an off-the-record conversation.
The same rules for every deputy
All 38 deputies and both Alderney Representatives are measured by one published method. When we change the method, the change applies to everyone at once and the corrections log records it.
We judge consistency, not politics
A verdict says whether a vote matched the promise a deputy made. It says nothing about whether the policy was right. A promise counts as kept when the deputy voted to deliver it, whether or not the motion passed. We do not endorse candidates or parties, and we will not tell anyone how to vote.
Only a vote that tests the promise counts
Procedural motions do not score, and neither does tabling an amendment that never reaches a vote. A vote that bears only loosely on a promise is shown for context and labelled as not counting. Where no vote has yet tested a promise, it is marked No recorded vote rather than forced into a verdict.
A right of reply on every verdict
Any deputy can add a response beside any verdict on their own page. We publish it verbatim and never summarise it. A deputy who would rather talk it through can ask for a call, and we will ring.
We correct mistakes in public
Anyone can challenge a ruling from the deputy’s page by citing the source that shows it is wrong. Every challenge is logged and reviewed, and the outcome is published whether we upheld it or not. Every correction is named and dated on the corrections log, and pinned in the data so the weekly automated re-run cannot quietly undo it.
Rulings change for evidence, not pressure
A ruling moves when the record shows it is wrong. It does not move because a deputy, a party or a reader objects to it, and it does not move because someone knows us or our advisers.
We record the work as well as the shortfalls
Each deputy’s page carries their notable achievements and media coverage alongside the scorecard. The Speaking Activity page sets out the arguments made in each major debate, with verified quotes from both sides.
We will keep it running for the whole term
The record continues sitting by sitting until the next general election in 2029, so every deputy is judged on the full term and not on a snapshot taken early in it.
Who holds us to it
Our senior advisers hold us to these commitments.
Heidi Soulsby MBE
A chartered accountant who qualified in the City of London and moved to Guernsey in 1990, she was a director at KPMG and chief operating officer of Carey Olsen before setting up businesses of her own. She was a States deputy from 2012 to 2025 and topped the poll in the South East district in 2012 and 2016. As President of Health & Social Care from 2016 to 2020 she led the island’s health response to Covid-19 and sat on the Civil Contingencies Authority, work recognised with an MBE in the 2021 New Year Honours. She chaired the Public Accounts Committee, was Vice-President of Policy & Resources from 2020 to 2022 and again from 2023 to 2025, and in 2024 became Guernsey’s first female Deputy Chief Minister. Since October 2025 she has sat on the board of Les Bourgs Hospice.
Richard Digard
Editor of the Guernsey Press for 14 years, from 2000 until he stepped down in June 2014. He joined the board of Guernsey Post as a non-executive director in 2017 and was its chairman from 2021 to 2023. He has served as a douzenier for the Vale, and writes a regular column on island politics and the economy for the Guernsey Press.
If you think we have broken one of these commitments, use the “Report a profile issue” button on any deputy’s page, or reply to any email we have sent you, and say which one. We will answer, and our advisers see every report of this kind.
Version 1, October 2026. If we change a commitment, the earlier wording stays on this page with the date it changed.