Guernsey Deputy Scorecard

AN INDEPENDENT RECORD OF EVERY PROMISE MADE IN THE STATES OF GUERNSEY

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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

Forward Guernsey party pledges

Forward Guernsey’s members stood on the Future Guernsey manifesto, “Our Plan for Guernsey: 2025-29 and beyond” (24 March 2025). It is no longer online at its original address, so the scorecard publishes the copy its party pledges are scored from, a near-final draft supplied by Forward Guernsey, for anyone to read: read the Future Guernsey manifesto (PDF, 47 pages, 4 MB). Its pledges are also checked against:

“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Not an official States dataset - the requirement to compile and publish it was rescinded by States’ resolution on 31 March 2022 (P.2022/15).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 principal-committee and Policy & Resources figures are transcribed from two data requests the Guernsey Press made directly to the States this term:

Development & Planning Authority figures were compiled from the Authority’s official minutes by its Principal Officer, Jim Rowles, in reply to a request from Bridgehead, received 6 October 2026. The reply lists all 19 meetings from 9 July 2025 to 19 August 2026, the Authority’s membership through the term, and the apologies recorded at each meeting. It records apologies only: it does not separate full from part attendance, so a deputy without apologies is counted as attending.

The Policy & Resources Committee’s own attendance record covers 1 July 2025 to 6 October 2026: 99 meetings averaging four hours. It gives each member’s meetings attended in full and in part. Deputies Burford (from 25 September 2025) and Niles (from 20 May 2026) joined part-way, and Deputy St Pier’s last meeting was on 19 May 2026, so their totals are lower. Because this record is longer and more recent than the Press table, the leaderboard’s committee average uses it for Policy & Resources in place of the Press’s 1 January to 4 August 2026 figure; both remain on each deputy’s card.

The Employment & Social Security Committee’s own attendance return covers 5 August to 4 October 2026: 7 meetings averaging 3.5 hours. It gives each member’s meetings attended in full and in part, and records absences as either States business or other. The non-voting member, Wendy McHugh, attended 6 of 7 meetings in full. The return starts where the Press’s 1 January to 4 August 2026 window ends, so the two are added together in the leaderboard’s committee average and both show on each deputy’s card.

The Environment & Infrastructure Committee’s own attendance returns cover 1 July to 31 December 2025 (15 meetings) and 4 August to 4 October 2026 (3 meetings). They give each member’s meetings attended in full and in part, and record absences as either States business or other. The committee supplied nothing for 1 January to 3 August 2026, which the Press’s figures still cover. Alderney Representative Alex Snowdon, a voting member who is not tracked on the scorecard, attended 13 of 15 meetings in full and one in part in the first period, and all 3 in the second; his figures show on the Committee attendance page but not in the leaderboard. Both returns are added to the Press window in the leaderboard’s committee average and show on each deputy’s card.

The Committee for Health & Social Care’s own attendance return, supplied by its Senior Manager on 22 October 2026, covers 1 July to 20 October 2026: 10 formal meetings and five members. It gives each member’s meetings attended in full and in part, and records absences as either States business or personal business or indisposed. Because it is the more recent record, the leaderboard’s committee average uses it for Health & Social Care in place of the Press’s 1 January to 4 August 2026 figure; both remain on each deputy’s card.

The Committee for Housing’s own attendance return, supplied by its Policy Support Officer on 23 October 2026, covers 4 August to 7 October 2026: 5 meetings and five members. It gives each member’s meetings attended in full and in part, and records absences as either States business or other. The return starts where the Press’s 1 January to 4 August 2026 window ends, so the two are added together in the leaderboard’s committee average and both show on each deputy’s card.

Scrutiny Management Committee figures were supplied by the committee’s Clerk and cover July 2025 to September 2026 (15 meetings, an average of two hours each) and record absences as either States business or other. The committee’s two non-States voting members, elected on 3 September 2025, are not tracked on the scorecard: Mark Le Page attended 11 of 12 meetings in full and one in part, and Charisma Lyall attended 9 of 12 meetings.

The Offshore Wind Delivery Board’s attendance record covers 1 July 2025 to 6 October 2026: 13 meetings, with three States members. It gives each member’s meetings attended in full and in part, and records absences as either States business or other. It shows on each deputy’s card and counts in the leaderboard’s committee average.

The Transport Licensing Authority’s own return, dated 3 November 2026, covers 15 July 2025 to 30 October 2026: 20 meetings of one to two hours. The Authority meets when air transport licence applications arrive, often at short notice, rather than to a fixed schedule. It left two members off the invitation to the meeting of 23 April 2026 in error, so their totals are 19. Alderney Representative Edward Hill attended 14 of those 19; his figure shows on the Committee attendance page but not in the leaderboard. The deputies’ figures show on each deputy’s card and count in the leaderboard’s committee average.

Economy

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

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

Jersey comparators

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

UK comparators

Jersey

Education

Guernsey attainment

School inspections

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Jersey comparators

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Known Unknowns

Each of the 60 entries on that page is a claim that a statistic is not collated, and each carries its own evidence document inline: the States’ release calendar, a bulletin footnote, an accounting policy, a Rule 14 written answer or a Freedom of Information response. The register is Bridgehead’s own compilation; the absences are stated in the States’ words wherever those exist.

Information Freedom & Transparency

Covers the current States term only (718 requests, 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

If a figure on this site doesn’t match its source, or a source has been superseded, we want to know. Contact Bridgehead Communications and we will review and correct it. Every correction made so far is listed, named and dated, on the corrections log.

Who builds this

The Guernsey Deputy Scorecard is built, paid for and maintained by Bridgehead Communications, a PR, public affairs and reputation consultancy. No member, party, States committee or campaign funds it. Nobody pays to appear on it, and nobody pays to have an entry corrected.

We publish it to showcase the best of Channel Island politics, and to help readers see the vibrancy, and sometimes the sheer grind, behind the contributions made in the chambers of both Guernsey and Jersey.

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