Guernsey · References
Data sources
Every dataset used across this site, by section, with a link to its primary source. For how these sources are turned into scores and rankings, see the methodology.
Scorecard: promises & voting record
- election2025.gg - each candidate’s manifesto for the 18 June 2025 general election (promise extraction), plus the equivalent by-election candidate pages
- States of Deliberation Simultaneous Electronic Voting records (every recorded Pour / Contre / Ne vote pas ballot)
- States of Guernsey (gov.gg) - States Resolutions and official announcements, used in delivery verdicts
- States of Guernsey parliament site (parliament.gg) - members, meetings and Hansard, used in delivery verdicts
Forward Guernsey party pledges
The Future Guernsey manifesto adopted by Forward Guernsey’s members is no longer available online, so its pledges are sourced individually:
- Future Guernsey, "Focus on our six steps towards creating a fairer tax system" (via the Internet Archive - the original manifesto document is no longer online)
- Guernsey Press, "Future Guernsey manifesto includes pledge to make States savings" (24 Mar 2025)
“In the news” coverage
Deputy news links are drawn from a fixed allow-list of Bailiwick outlets: Guernsey Press (guernseypress.com), Bailiwick Express (bailiwickexpress.com), BBC (bbc.co.uk), ITV Channel (itv.com) and Island FM (islandfm.com). AI delivery verdicts additionally cite gov.gg, parliament.gg and States Resolutions, and every verdict names its evidence inline on the deputy’s page.
Committee meeting attendance
Not an official States dataset - the requirement to compile and publish it was rescinded by States’ resolution on 31 March 2022 (P.2022/15). The figures shown are transcribed from two data requests the Guernsey Press made directly to the States this term:
Economy
- States of Guernsey Data & Analysis, Guernsey Annual GVA and GDP Bulletin 2023 (First Estimates), Tables 2.1.1 and 3.1.1
- States of Guernsey Data & Analysis Service - historical GDP 1965-2008, supplied directly by email (22 Oct 2024); not published in raw form on gov.gg
- World Bank Open Data, GDP growth (annual %), indicator NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG - OECD and UK growth comparators
- States of Guernsey, Quarterly Population, Employment and Earnings Bulletin (issued 29 Oct 2024) - population, age structure, employment, median earnings
- States of Guernsey Strategy & Policy / Data and Analysis, Annual Guernsey Population Projection Bulletin (April 2023)
- States of Guernsey Data & Analysis, Guernsey Annual Residential Property Stock Bulletin 2025 - home ownership and net new homes
- States Strategic Housing Indicator 2023-2027 (agreed March 2023)
- States of Guernsey Accounts 2024 (published 23 Jun 2025) - FTE staffing and pay bill
- States of Guernsey Accounts, 2013-2023 editions (Segmental Analysis) - net revenue expenditure series
- States of Guernsey, debut £330m bond announcement (Dec 2014) and gov.gg/borrowing - borrowing timeline
- States of Guernsey, "Unemployment statistics published up until end of September 2024" (Job Centre snapshot)
- States of Guernsey RPI release, year to June 2026
- Bailiwick Express, "FACT CHECKED: Is Guernsey’s public sector really ‘small compared to anywhere else’?" - public-sector share comparators
- Bridgehead Communications, "Make Guernsey Great Again" (Dec 2024) - workforce-share comparator, citing BBC and published States data
Derived measures on the Economy tab (net revenue expenditure as a share of GDP, the OECD/UK growth counterfactuals, and the 2016–2020 ownership-rate series) are Bridgehead’s own calculations from the sources above; each chart’s source note on that page states the exact method and its caveats.
Balance the Budget
- States of Guernsey Budget 2026 (P.2025/121), approved November 2025 - all revenue and expenditure baselines, committee cash limits, service-area analysis, formula-led expenditure and the Table 6 risk scenarios
- Policy & Resources Committee 2026 Tax Reform Package - the 3% GST yield of £55m, the £28m cost of personal tax protections, employer social security, the social security allowance, transport and corporate measures, and the published implementation and running costs
- The Tax Review Phase 2 - the earlier 5% GST costing of "more than £68m", used on this page only to show that the two published costings imply different yields per percentage point
- States Trading Supervisory Board reporting on Aurigny - the 2024 loss of £6.5m and the Alderney lifeline subsidy target of £1.5m from 1 January 2025
Every baseline in the budget tool is a published figure from the sources above, and each committee’s service lines reconcile to its own cash limit. Two things on that page are not States figures and are labelled as such wherever they appear: per-unit yields marked “derived” are scaled pro-rata from a published total, and the price elasticities behind the behavioural model are Bridgehead’s assumptions, using ordinary published ranges for each class of goods rather than Guernsey measurements. The page sets out every elasticity it uses, and what it does not model at all.
Crime
Guernsey
- Guernsey Police / Bailiwick Law Enforcement Annual Reports, 2010-2025
- States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2013 (Table 3.11, 2008-2012 series)
- States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2025 (Table 3.24, 2020-2024 series and both methodology-break notes)
Jersey comparators
- States of Jersey Police Annual Report 2022, cited via States Assembly R.38-2024
- States of Jersey Police Annual Report 2023
- Jersey Open Data, "Recorded crime per 1,000 population by year"
UK comparators
No single published back-series of Guernsey recorded crime exists; the 2008–2025 series was assembled by Bridgehead from overlapping Annual Reports and States Facts and Figures booklets, with each year cross-checked against at least one other document. The two recording-methodology breaks (2018 and 2021) are marked on the chart.
Healthcare
Guernsey
- States of Guernsey, Secondary Healthcare Contract KPI Report 2024 (published Apr 2025)
- gov.gg/secondaryhealthcare (index of all editions, 2018-2024)
- States of Guernsey, Annual Better Life Indicators Report, 2023 and 2024 editions
- States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2024, Figure 3.15 (p.76)
UK comparators
- NHS England, A&E Waiting Times and Activity statistics
- Nuffield Trust, QualityWatch, "A&E waiting times"
Jersey
Education
Guernsey attainment
- gov.gg media releases, "GCSE and Level 2 results", 2012-2026 editions
- Education Matters: Annual Report of the Education Department 2011-12, Statistical Digest p.65 (the trend chart)
- 7 Sept 2011 States of Guernsey Education Board media release (2008-2011 figures)
- States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2019, Table 3.12
- "Attainment 8 to now be the primary way school exam results are reported" (2023 methodology change)
School inspections
- States of Guernsey, school inspection reports
- States of Guernsey, inspections archive (superseded reports)
- Guernsey school inspection handbook (grading scale)
End of 11-plus selection
- BBC News, "Guernsey 11-plus vote: End of selection confirmed by States vote" (Dec 2016)
- States of Guernsey, secondary schools
- ITV News Channel, "All Guernsey States secondary schools become non-selective" (5 Sept 2023)
Jersey comparators
UK comparators
Information Freedom & Transparency
Covers the current States term only (718requests, 1 July 2025 to 20 August 2026) - not the full disclosure log, which runs back to 2014. Response-time and outcome figures are Bridgehead’s own analysis of each published response letter, not a States-published statistic. Of the 718 outcome classifications, 63 were individually hand-verified against the full letter text; the remaining 655 kept an automated keyword-scan call. Working-day figures are a plain Monday-to-Friday count with no States of Guernsey public-holiday calendar applied, so they slightly overstate true elapsed working days.
Corrections
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