How the States answers Freedom of Information requests.

“Granted in part” covers any response that answered some but not all of a request, whatever the reason given. Only 63 of 718 rows were individually hand-verified against the full letter text - see the note above and the table below for which.

“Other / miscellaneous” buckets requests that didn’t fit a clear single topic (e.g. multi-subject requests, or subjects with only one or two requests each).

395 of 718 requests (55.0%) were answered within 20 working days on this plain Monday-to-Friday count. Because no public-holiday calendar is applied, true elapsed working days run slightly higher than shown, so this on-target rate is an upper bound, not an exact figure.

The slowest year on the median was 2025 (25 working days to a typical answer, 39% within target), the fastest 2017 (6 working days, 84% within target). The busiest full year was 2025, with 152 requests.

Grouped by year of submission, so a request asked in December and answered in January counts against the earlier year. 2014 and 2026 are partial years - the log starts 25 March 2014 and runs to 20 August 2026- so their request counts are not comparable with a full year’s, though their response-time and outcome rates are. Working days are a plain Monday-to-Friday count (no public-holiday calendar), so every on-target rate is an upper bound; and the outcome split inherits the partial verification described at the top of the page, so treat a single year’s few-point movement in the outcome mix with more caution than a sustained multi-year shift.

States of Guernsey, Freedom of Information disclosure log (gov.gg/information) - every response letter referenced below is published there.

Of the 12 committees below, a current, named individual accountable for how the department runs, either its senior civil servant or its Committee Secretary, could be verified against the States’ own website for only 4. For the slowest of them, the Committee for Home Affairs, no current officer of either kind is publicly named anywhere on gov.gg.

Committee attribution is read from each response letter’s own text (a line reading “Response provided by...”), which only appears in letters from roughly 2021 onward - the older letter template used before that never states which committee answered, so this breakdown cannot be extended back to the full 2014 record. Committees with fewer than 5 attributed requests in this window are left off the list rather than ranked on too small a sample. 71 of 501 requests in this window are excluded from every row above: either the letter did not clearly name a single committee, or it named more than one jointly. The named officer under each committee, where found, is that committee’s senior civil servant or, where none could be verified as current, its Committee Secretary - Guernsey replaced one-Chief-Officer-per-committee with a single unified civil service in 2019, so most committees no longer have one clearly identifiable senior officer published anywhere current; a gap here reflects that, not a research shortfall. Hover an officer’s name for any scope caveat; click through to its source.

Bridgehead’s own subject categorisation of each question’s title, not a States-published classification - “Other / miscellaneous” covers question titles too short or generic to place in a single topic (e.g. a bare deputy’s name, or a one-word title like “Waste” with nothing else to go on).

Scoped to 56 of 440written questions on record: the rest predate the ingest that started capturing a genuine, distinct response date, and carry only a count (topics above), not a reliable turnaround figure - see getWrittenQuestionStats() for exactly which rows qualify and why. “Clear days” per Rule 14(2) excludes both the day a question was asked and the day it was answered.

Counted by the year a question was asked. 2026 is a partial year, running to 28 August 2026. 2016 shows as zero because no question dated that year appears in parliament.gg’s question record, which this page reads from - more likely a gap in that record than a year in which no Member asked a written question, so read it as missing rather than as none.

Committees with fewer than 5 questions carrying a genuine response date are left off this list - most of the record predates reliable response-date capture, so only a handful of committees clear that bar. Not a full ranking of every committee, just the ones with enough evidence to say something about.