The questions still outstanding, and the data that would answer them.

How many people live in Guernsey today, and is the number rising or falling?

The statistic not collated

A current population figure. The last one is for 31 December 2023.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Electronic Census and the quarterly population bulletin stopped after the December 2023 figure, published 29 October 2024. In July 2025 the States said the historical outward-migration figures had been under-stated, so the last published total is itself probably too high, by up to 3%. No restart date has been given. Guernsey has not held a traditional census since 29 April 2001; the electronic census that replaced it is the series now suspended.

Are working-age islanders leaving, and who is replacing them?

The statistic not collated

Net migration by age band since 2023, on the corrected basis.

Why the question cannot be answered

Under-40s were 44.0% of the population at end-2023, down from 49.0% in 2007. Whether that decline has continued cannot be known: the age-structure tables come from the suspended Electronic Census, and the States have said the outward-migration component of the old figures was wrong. Even when it was published, migration by age came in four bands only, from 0 to 15 up to 85 and over, too coarse to show whether school leavers and graduates come back.

How much public money has been written off on projects that were abandoned or delivered nothing?

The statistic not collated

Named, itemised write-offs and impairments of failed or abandoned capital and IT projects.

Why the question cannot be answered

Until 2021 the States did not capitalise capital spending; it was written off in the year it was spent, so money spent designing something never built left no trace to impair later. Fixed assets have been recognised since the 2022 Accounts and the 2024 set was the first fully compliant with international public sector standards, so impairment losses now exist. But they appear as a single aggregate line, and non-capitalised project costs are expensed in one total, with no project named against either. Scrutiny said as much of the 2025 Accounts.

Do capital projects come in at the price the Assembly approved, and by how much do they overrun?

The statistic not collated

A standing register showing, for every major project, original approved cost, current approved cost, spend to date and forecast outturn.

Why the question cannot be answered

Spend to date is published per project in the Accounts, without the approved cost beside it. Portfolio-wide views have been one-off policy letters. Scrutiny’s comment on the 2026 portfolio report says the letter does not reconcile costs, funding and the basis of estimates across the portfolio. Policy & Resources committed to a publicly accessible portfolio report from July 2026; whether it carries the original approvals is what will decide if this entry can come off the page.

Is a public sector growing faster than the population delivering more per pound, or just costing more?

The statistic not collated

Any measure of public service output or productivity, by service.

Why the question cannot be answered

Core-government headcount rose 18.6% in a decade while the island’s population barely moved, and the Accounts report the cost of that in detail. They report nothing about what it bought. Scrutiny’s letter on the 2025 Accounts says the same: no insight into productivity or into whether extra spending is linked to better outcomes. The UK has published a public service productivity index since 1997.

How will islanders know whether the government’s four-year plan is working?

The statistic not collated

Quantified indicators with baselines and targets for the Government Work Plan 2026 to 2029, reported against annually.

Why the question cannot be answered

The plan sets out five priorities and named outcomes in narrative form. It carries no indicators, baselines or targets, and progress is to be reported twice in the term, in mid-2027 and at the end. The States publish an annual Better Life Indicators report, but it is not tied to the plan’s actions.

How open is the States to requests for information, and is it getting better or worse?

The statistic not collated

Any official statistics on Freedom of Information requests: volumes, outcomes, or response times.

Why the question cannot be answered

Guernsey has no Freedom of Information law. Requests are handled under a voluntary Code of Practice, so the 20-working-day response window is a target, not a legal deadline, and nobody is required to report against it. The disclosure log publishes individual response letters but no aggregate figures. Every outcome and turnaround figure on this site is Bridgehead’s own analysis of those letters.

Is the public service getting sicker, and what does that cost?

The statistic not collated

A published sickness-absence series for the States workforce.

Why the question cannot be answered

Only two figures exist, for 2023 and 2025, and both were provided to a deputy in answer to a written question and reported by Guernsey Press. Total sick days rose from about 60,000 to about 67,000, an average of 10.8 to 11.4 days per employee. No intervening years, no breakdown by committee, and no cost were published.

Is the economy growing, and is it getting more productive?

The statistic not collated

Gross Value Added, GDP and factor income per worker for 2024 and 2025.

Why the question cannot be answered

The last GVA and GDP bulletin covers 2023 and was issued in September 2024. The 2024 edition sits on the release calendar’s undated list. The bulletin also carried the island’s only productivity measure, factor income per worker by sector, so that stopped with it; no hours-worked measure has ever existed. Even the series that exists cannot be read back before 2009, because the 2017 method change restated GDP only that far.

Are islanders being paid more in real terms, and is the labour market tightening or loosening?

The statistic not collated

Median earnings, employment by sector, registered unemployment and Job Centre vacancies for any quarter after June 2024.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Quarterly Population, Employment and Earnings Bulletin carried all of them, including the only skills-shortage signal the island has, vacancies advertised with the Job Centre by sector. The June, September and December 2024 editions are all undated, and nothing has appeared for 2025 or 2026. The Committee for Employment & Social Security set 2026 benefit rates knowing the earnings figure it uprates against was missing.

What is tourism actually worth to the island?

The statistic not collated

Visitor spend with a disclosed method and a reliable sample.

Why the question cannot be answered

Visitor numbers, bed nights and accommodation occupancy are published quarterly and are sound. The headline that matters, around £151m of spend in 2025, is described in the release as an estimate with no method given, and the survey behind visitor behaviour is an opt-in subset of those who completed an exit interview.

Are the lifeline air routes viable and reliable, route by route?

The statistic not collated

Route-level load factors and punctuality for the States-owned airline.

Why the question cannot be answered

Aurigny publishes network-wide punctuality monthly and total passengers annually. Its 2024 annual report sets a load-factor target without disclosing the level, and the States’ own 2024 inquiry into the airline reported on-time performance for the network as a whole only. Whether the Alderney or Southampton routes pay their way is not a published fact.

Are islanders better off than they were five years ago?

The statistic not collated

Household income for any year after 2022.

Why the question cannot be answered

Only two comparable points have ever been published, 2017 and 2022, and between them real median household income fell 10.0%. The 2023 report is on the undated list. Whether that fall has continued through three years of high inflation is not known.

How many islanders are living in poverty, and how many of them are in work?

The statistic not collated

The relative-poverty rate for 2023 onwards, and any in-work poverty rate.

Why the question cannot be answered

A nine-year annual run exists, 2014 to 2022: 22.3% below 60% of median income after housing costs in 2014, a low of 16.5% in 2019, then 18.9% in 2022 and rising. The next edition is undated on the calendar. The trend broke off exactly as it turned upward. The States resolved in 2019 to improve data on in-work poverty; the reports that would have carried it are the ones now suspended.

How many islanders rely on a food bank?

The statistic not collated

Any official count of food-bank use.

Why the question cannot be answered

No States statistic exists and the operating charity publishes no series of its own. Figures that circulate come from a funder’s annual review and from the local press, in four incompatible units: requests, people, visits and households. A one-visit-per-month cap means every one of them understates need by construction.

Could islanders withstand a shock to their income?

The statistic not collated

A household savings rate, at any cadence.

Why the question cannot be answered

No national-accounts savings rate is published. The Household Expenditure Survey 2023-24 asked, for the first time, how long households could manage on savings: 41% hold less than one month’s income. Because the question is new, there is nothing to compare it with, and the survey runs roughly every five years.

How much less are women paid than men, and is the gap closing?

The statistic not collated

An hours-adjusted gender pay gap, and any gender earnings figure since June 2024.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only States measure is a pair of medians in the quarterly bulletin, £39,155 for women against £46,088 for men in the year to June 2024, which the bulletin itself says is unadjusted for hours worked. It therefore cannot separate lower pay from shorter hours. And it is in the suspended bulletin, so even that figure has not moved since.

How many disabled islanders are there, and how many are in work?

The statistic not collated

A disability employment rate, and a prevalence figure newer than 2012 on a consistent definition.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2012 Disability Needs Survey estimated 4,000 islanders with a long-term condition and significant difficulty. The 2023 Wellbeing Survey asks a different question, long-term condition alone, and gets 36.8%. Neither survey reports an employment rate for disabled people, and no other source does. Guernsey passed a discrimination ordinance in 2023 with no baseline against which to judge it.

Will the fund that pays for care homes run out, and when?

The statistic not collated

An actuarial review of the Long-term Care Insurance Fund more recent than 31 December 2019.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2026 contribution rates were set against actuarial reviews covering 2015 to 2019, which projected the fund exhausted by 2053. Six years of care-cost inflation, an ageing population and a private care-home market the States themselves described in 2024 as needing stabilisation have happened since. A review as at end-2024 would be due on the five-year cycle; none has been published.

How many islanders are waiting for hospital care, for how long, and will we still be able to tell next year?

The statistic not collated

A regular count of all patients waiting, by specialty and wait band, in a series that survives 2027.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only published waiting measures are the contract KPIs, 2018 to 2025, and every target was missed in 2025: outpatients 64%, inpatients 57% against 95%. They give an inpatient list count once a year, 2,184 at end-2025, no outpatient count, and no monthly series. The 2025 report states it is the last in this format. Unless the old measures are carried alongside the new framework, the one run of data that shows the deterioration ends at its worst point.

Is demand on the Emergency Department rising?

The statistic not collated

A multi-year series of Emergency Department attendances.

Why the question cannot be answered

The contract KPI report publishes the share of patients seen within four hours back to 2018, but the number of people coming through the door appears only as a single year-on-year comparison: 24,153 in 2024 against 23,957 in 2023. A performance percentage with no activity series behind it cannot distinguish a busier department from a slower one.

How long do children wait for mental health help, and what are they presenting with?

The statistic not collated

Published child and adolescent mental health waiting times, and referral reasons.

Why the question cannot be answered

Referral counts exist only because someone asked under the Freedom of Information Code. Before 2017 referrals were not routinely recorded at all. The service does not code why a child is referred, so the presenting problem cannot be counted without reading every file. No waiting-time figure is published; the only one on record, roughly 18 months for a child ADHD assessment, came from another FOI answer.

How many islanders go without a GP or a dentist because of the fee, and is it getting worse?

The statistic not collated

An annual measure of cost-related non-attendance, GP consultation volumes and appointment fees.

Why the question cannot be answered

Primary care in Guernsey is charged at the point of use, so this is a live question. The only States measure is a self-reported survey question asked every five years: in 2023, 26.8% had not attended a dentist and 22.3% a GP because of cost. The States do not collect fee levels; the widely quoted average GP fee came from a broadcaster’s survey of practices.

Are there enough care-home beds, how many people are waiting for one, and who is paying?

The statistic not collated

Care-home capacity, occupancy and waits for a placement as a series, and any data on the assets of those who pay.

Why the question cannot be answered

Bed numbers appeared once, in the December 2024 policy letter on stabilising the private care-home market: about 700 in 2023, rising to a projected 1,050 by 2038. Self-funder numbers are a single 2023 snapshot. The same letter states that the States hold no information on individuals’ assets, so the effect of any care-cost contribution on households cannot be modelled from official data.

Do islanders diagnosed with cancer survive as long as people in England or Jersey?

The statistic not collated

One-year and five-year cancer survival rates for Guernsey.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Channel Islands Cancer Report, produced for the islands by NHS England’s registration service, covers incidence, mortality and staging for 20 cancer types. Survival is not in it: the word does not appear in the 113-page report. England publishes net survival by site every year.

Do poorer islanders live shorter, sicker lives than richer ones?

The statistic not collated

Any health outcome broken down by income or deprivation.

Why the question cannot be answered

Life expectancy, avoidable mortality and drug and alcohol deaths are published for the island as a whole. Nothing splits them by income, tenure or small area, and the poverty report that provides the island’s only deprivation measure is itself suspended. Guernsey cannot say whether its health gap is wider or narrower than England’s, where the difference in healthy life expectancy between richest and poorest is about 19 years.

Are fewer islanders dying of things that need not have killed them?

The statistic not collated

An annual avoidable-mortality series.

Why the question cannot be answered

Avoidable mortality is published ad hoc. Only the 2021 and 2024 editions exist, the latter revised in April 2026. The headline fell from 186 to 158 per 100,000 between 2019-21 and 2022-24, but the report itself cautions that the confidence intervals are too wide to call the fall real. The UK publishes the measure every year.

Is islanders’ mental wellbeing getting better or worse?

The statistic not collated

A mental-wellbeing figure that can be compared across survey waves.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2023 Wellbeing Survey headline, 12.1% with low wellbeing, is sample-relative and cannot be set against 2018’s 18.0%. On fixed England thresholds the two waves read 10.5% and 10.1%, no significant change. Two numbers that look like a trend, and are not one, is worse than no number.

Is the health service keeping the staff it pays to bring in, and what does agency cover cost?

The statistic not collated

Vacancies, agency spend, off-island recruitment and retention, as a published series.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only figures exist because a deputy asked. The Rule 14 answer gives relocation payments 2020 to 2024, states plainly that the cost of staff who joined within the period could not be isolated, and records that 42% of the 866 off-island recruits had already left. Agency spend was last disclosed to a broadcaster in 2023. The 2025 KPI report says reliance on agency and locum staff has reduced, and gives no figure.

Is drug and alcohol harm rising, and is treatment reaching the people who need it?

The statistic not collated

Annual drug-related deaths, and a time series for referrals, assessments and treatment.

Why the question cannot be answered

Drug-poisoning deaths are published only as three-year age-standardised rates, with confidence intervals the report itself calls very wide, and never as annual counts. The only charted treatment figures are a 2023 snapshot lifted from the preamble of a written question, quoting the Combined Substance Use Strategy annual report. Seizure counts were given term-to-date, with no annual split.

Did ending selection at 11 raise attainment across the board?

The statistic not collated

A consistent GCSE measure that spans the last selective and first non-selective cohorts.

Why the question cannot be answered

The long-run measure, five or more GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English and Maths, was discontinued from 2023. The 2020 to 2022 results were never published on it at all. What replaced it, grade 4 or above in English and Maths only, is a materially easier bar. The reform took effect in 2023, the measure changed in 2023, and no single published figure straddles the join.

Do poorer children in Guernsey do worse at school, and by how much?

The statistic not collated

The attainment gap between pupils on uniform allowance, the free-school-meals equivalent, and their peers.

Why the question cannot be answered

The cohort is counted: 1,382 pupils, 22.6%, have received uniform allowance in the last six years of their school career. Attainment 8 is then published by school and year only, with no disadvantage, need or gender split, and the colleges are excluded. Jersey publishes the equivalent gap for its Jersey Premium pupils every year. Guernsey has never published one.

Are children with additional needs getting a fair education?

The statistic not collated

Additional learning needs by type and setting, with attainment, attendance and destinations for those pupils.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Education Annual Report gives a single headcount, 1,250 pupils or 20.4% with an additional learning need, and prints the identical figure in the 2024 and 2025 editions. No outcome is ever split by need. The rise in special-school placings reported in the press in March 2026 had no published source behind it.

Is behaviour in States secondary schools deteriorating?

The statistic not collated

Annual suspensions and permanent exclusions by school, pupil count and reason, including the grant-aided colleges.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only figures came from a Freedom of Information request answered eleven months after it was made. They show secondary suspended sessions rising from 580 in 2018-19 to 2,861 in 2023-24, counted in sessions rather than pupils, with no permanent exclusions and no college data, since the colleges sit outside the Code. Neither Education Annual Report carries a suspension figure.

How many children are missing so much school that their education is at risk?

The statistic not collated

A persistent-absence rate, the share of pupils below 90% attendance, by school and phase.

Why the question cannot be answered

Only whole-school average attendance is published, 86.8% across secondaries in 2023/24. An average cannot show whether the shortfall is spread thinly or concentrated in a few hundred children who are barely there. The Committee names reducing persistent absence as an aim in its own annual report and publishes no rate for it.

Can Guernsey staff its schools without agency teachers, and why do teachers leave?

The statistic not collated

Teacher vacancy rate, turnover and reasons for leaving, by phase, annually.

Why the question cannot be answered

Snapshots surface in statements and written answers: 27 agency staff in a teaching headcount of 621 in September 2024. The Committee’s own Rule 14 answer says application data is destroyed after twelve months and exit-survey data cannot be split out for primary teachers. Scrutiny’s review of recruitment and retention was never completed.

What happens to the one in five 16-year-olds who do not stay in full-time education or an apprenticeship?

The statistic not collated

A rate for 16 to 18 year olds not in education, employment or training, and full leaver destinations within the year.

Why the question cannot be answered

The annual report publishes a participation rate, 82% of 16-year-olds in full-time education or apprenticeships in 2023/24, on a two-year lag. It does not say how many of the other 18% are working and how many are doing nothing. The 2024 report lists a reduction in the NEET figure as an aim, and no NEET figure has ever been published.

What did nine years of secondary reorganisation cost?

The statistic not collated

A cumulative cost for the programme, including the models that were approved and abandoned.

Why the question cannot be answered

Four capital headlines exist, £110m, £157.3m, £54m delegated and £88m, but they describe different scopes at different dates, most superseding one another, and must not be added. The design and feasibility money spent on the abandoned two-school and Lisia models between 2016 and 2021 was spent when the States wrote capital spending off in the year incurred, so it left nothing to impair once assets began to be recognised. The only total in the public record is one sentence a committee president said in debate.

Are the island’s schools sorting children by family income?

The statistic not collated

Household income and prior attainment by school, published as data.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2025 policy letter on college funding gives equivalised median household income for five of the six secondary schools and the colleges, and shows the colleges’ intake screening by cognitive assessment, but as flat images with no data layer. Only values restated in the prose can be used, which is why one school is missing from every table built on it.

Is crime rising or falling relative to the number of people living here?

The statistic not collated

Recorded crime per 1,000 population, on a consistent counting basis, over time.

Why the question cannot be answered

Every Bailiwick Law Enforcement annual report gives raw counts for the current year against one prior year. No report expresses crime as a rate, and no downloadable back-series exists; the 2008-2025 run on this site was reconstructed from eleven overlapping reports. Two counting changes sit inside it, the 2018 adoption of Home Office rules and the 2021 inclusion of Border Agency offences, and the second is flagged only in a States booklet, not by the police themselves. And the population denominator is itself now three years old.

Does prison, probation or community service actually stop people offending again?

The statistic not collated

A routine proven-reoffending rate by sentence type and release cohort.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2020 Justice Review published two-year reconviction figures for one cohort, 30% after a community sentence and 24% after prison for 2018, and noted that three of the reoffending indicators it wanted had no data at all. Nothing has been published since. The prison’s annual report states its rehabilitation aims and gives no reoffending figure.

How long do victims and defendants wait for justice, and is the backlog growing?

The statistic not collated

Time from charge to disposal and outstanding caseload, for the Magistrate’s Court and the Royal Court.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Justice Review had to build its own one-off measure from raw charge data, 5.9 months from offence to completion for 2017 cases, because nothing was public. Six years on the Royal Court publishes a calendar and nothing else. Court backlogs surface only when a Bailiff or an advocate mentions one to a reporter.

Are sentences consistent and proportionate?

The statistic not collated

Sentencing outcomes by offence, sentence type, length and defendant characteristics.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Justice Review found that in the absence of data about who is sentenced and to what, the recurring complaints about inconsistency could neither be confirmed nor dismissed, and that the Bailiwick had never systematically reviewed its sentencing legislation. The police publish charge and caution counts only. Individual judgments are published; nothing aggregates them.

How much domestic abuse actually happens, not just how much is reported?

The statistic not collated

Population prevalence of domestic abuse from a victimisation survey.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Committee’s own strategy says the recorded figures understate the problem because most victims never report. The instrument that would measure the real level, a repeated crime and victimisation survey, was last run in 2018. Since the new domestic abuse law took effect in 2025 the police publish offences, arrests and protection notices, all of which measure reporting, not prevalence.

Where and why do people get hurt on Guernsey’s roads, and is enforcement reducing it?

The statistic not collated

Collisions by cause, location, speed and road-user type, with a casualty rate per head.

Why the question cannot be answered

The police publish raw counts and casualty severity for the current year against one prior year, 331 collisions in 2025 with one death. The consultants the States commissioned on road traffic offences devoted a chapter to the feasibility of capturing statistics at all, and made data improvement and the capture and reporting of statistics formal recommendations.

How fast do the fire service and the 999 control room actually respond?

The statistic not collated

Emergency call-answer, turnout and attendance times against a published standard.

Why the question cannot be answered

The UK inspectorate that reviewed Bailiwick Law Enforcement in 2022 found the joint emergency control centre had no performance framework and did not routinely monitor how long 999 calls took to answer or how many were abandoned. The fire service’s annual report counts incidents by type and time of day; the only response target it reports against is for home fire-safety visits.

How many people come to Guernsey on permits each year, in which jobs, and how many stay?

The statistic not collated

Employment permits issued by type, sector and outcome, as a published series.

Why the question cannot be answered

Population management is the island’s main lever on who lives here, and the numbers behind it emerge only when asked for. An FOI answer for 2022 gave 3,061 applications and an estimated approval rate above 98%. The population management pages link no statistics, and the Electronic Census tables that showed residence status are suspended.

How many homes, of what size and tenure, does Guernsey actually need?

The statistic not collated

A household survey of housing need. The last was in 2011.

Why the question cannot be answered

The housing pages still say a Housing Needs Survey is organised every five years, and list three: 2001, 2006 and 2011. Need is now set by a desk model, the States Strategic Housing Indicator, whose 2023 baseline the States’ own monitoring report says rested mainly on household composition data from 2017. The island is planning 313 homes a year on a survey older than its secondary-school pupils.

Is the island building the homes it says it needs, and where is the pipeline stalling?

The statistic not collated

An annual reconciled report of permissions, starts and completions against the housing indicator.

Why the question cannot be answered

The Island Development Plan’s Annual Monitoring Report did that job. The archive page lists 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021 editions and nothing since. Quarterly monitoring continues but lags by up to a year. Completions of around 120 homes a year against a need of over 300 became public in a land-supply update in 2026, and the housing president said that year there had never been a single joined-up picture of delivery.

What are tenants actually paying, and is renting becoming unaffordable?

The statistic not collated

Achieved rents for new and existing tenancies, Local and Open Market.

Why the question cannot be answered

The quarterly rental figure, £2,138 a month in mid-2026, is a mix-adjusted average of advertised asking rents for Local Market properties, built from web and classified adverts on samples the bulletin says are too small to smooth. It measures what landlords ask of the next tenant, not what a quarter of the island’s households are paying. No Open Market rental series exists at all.

Can an ordinary earner afford an ordinary home?

The statistic not collated

A current house-price-to-earnings ratio.

Why the question cannot be answered

The property prices bulletin still carries the table, but it has not moved since Q3 2024, when it stood at 14.1 times median earnings, because the earnings denominator comes from the suspended quarterly bulletin. House prices are published on time every quarter; the ratio that makes them meaningful is not.

How much of the housing stock is held as second homes or holiday lets rather than housing residents?

The statistic not collated

A count of second homes and holiday lets by market and parish.

Why the question cannot be answered

The States’ own housing-market consultants could only reach the figure by subtraction, dwellings minus households minus vacant units, and concluded about one home in twelve is not available to the market for reasons they could not separate. The annual stock bulletin now reports the share of units whose owner’s address is outside Guernsey, 1.5%, which is a different and narrower thing.

Is the transport strategy shifting people out of cars?

The statistic not collated

Island-wide modal share and continuous walking and cycling counts.

Why the question cannot be answered

The 2014 Integrated Transport Strategy set out to move journeys to foot, bike and bus. Its own first periodic review in 2019 said progress could not be quantified because the baseline was a single 2013 survey of 545 people and one count site. The States bought their first cycle counters in January 2026.

Is Guernsey really one of the most car-dependent places on earth, or is the register inflated?

The statistic not collated

Vehicles actually in circulation, and households with and without a car.

Why the question cannot be answered

The register showed 90,794 vehicles in August 2025 for a population of about 64,000, but there is no duty to notify when a vehicle is scrapped, so the register cannot be reconciled to the fleet; the States estimate about 46,000 private vehicles are actually in use. Vehicle-owning households cannot be calculated from the data held. Every headline about cars per head rests on a number the States say is an estimate.

Are the island’s roads getting better or worse for the money spent on them?

The statistic not collated

A network condition measure updated after each survey.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only published result is from 2013, when 6% of roads were found in very poor condition. Surveys were said to run roughly every four years and a 2017 survey was announced, but no later result has been published and the roads page still cites 2013. The resurfacing programme is published as a list of roads, with no condition score behind it.

What do roadworks cost the island, and who causes them?

The statistic not collated

Road-closure counts, durations and costs, by utility and by road, as a series.

Why the question cannot be answered

Everything known comes from Freedom of Information responses. The permit-cost figures cover all Trafficworx permit types and cannot be reconciled with the closure counts in the raw activity log obtained separately. The admin and staffing cost breakdown by year was withheld as commercially sensitive under exemption 2.9.

How many households cannot afford to heat their homes as tariffs rise?

The statistic not collated

A repeated official fuel-poverty measure.

Why the question cannot be answered

Fuel poverty has been estimated once, by consultants for the States’ Trading Supervisory Board in 2023: around 17% of households spending more than 6% of disposable income on electricity, using 2019 spending data at 2022 tariffs, electricity only. The consultants said they used an expenditure measure because of limited data, and that the result could not be compared with other jurisdictions. Standing charges and tariffs have risen sharply since.

How much of the island’s emissions cut is real, and how much has been exported down the cable?

The statistic not collated

A consumption-based emissions inventory, including imported electricity and international travel.

Why the question cannot be answered

The annual greenhouse gas bulletin is sound and is published on time, but it is territorial by design: it counts only emissions released in Guernsey. About nine-tenths of the island’s electricity is imported from France, and the emissions from generating it fall outside the inventory, as does international aviation and shipping fuel. The bulletin says so itself. The headline cut since 1990 therefore cannot be separated from the switch to imports.

Which parts of the coast will flood, when, and are the defences fit to stop it?

The statistic not collated

Coastal flood-risk mapping on current sea-level projections, and published condition ratings for the sea walls.

Why the question cannot be answered

The only flood-risk study is from 2012 and, by the States’ own description, uses sea-level research issued in 2009. Two generations of UK climate projections have been published since. Sea-wall condition inspections have run every three years since 2016, but the scores are not published; the 2026 coastal works list still includes building the asset register.