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Connétable for St Helier · Independent
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Deputy for St Helier North · Independent
Candidate will work to protect essential living costs to tackle the high cost of living.
No recorded vote yet“Tackle the high cost of living by protecting essential living costs.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During her tenure as Minister for Children and Education (June 2022 – January 2024), Gardiner took several actions relevant to protecting essential living costs, including multiple increases to student finance maintenance grants (2.9% in September 2022, 7.2% in December 2022, and 3.8% planned for September 2023), all explicitly linked to the rising cost of living. She also ringfenced £1.6 million for school meals and announced a 10.1% increase in student finance grants for independent students in her first four months in office. However, following the removal of Chief Minister Kristina Moore in January 2024, Gardiner lost her ministerial role and moved to scrutiny positions (President of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee), limiting her ability to directly deliver further cost-of-living measures. No evidence was found of a dedicated, broad cost-of-living protection proposition lodged by her in the backbench phase of the term, and Jersey's real earnings fell in real terms by 3.3% over 2020–2024 per Statistics Jersey, indicating the wider problem remained unresolved.
Candidate will work to reduce wasteful public spending.
No recorded vote yet“Ensure less goes to waste by spending public money wisely.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Throughout the 2022–2026 term, Deputy Gardiner chaired the Public Accounts Committee — Jersey's States spending watchdog — and also served as President of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee, conducting multiple reviews directly targeting wasteful public expenditure including procurement (covering ~£445m annual government spend), Arm's Length Bodies/Grants and Subsidies, IT system inefficiencies, Health & Care Jersey budget overruns, and exit/severance payments. A PAC Legacy Report 2022–2026 was published on 16 April 2026 summarising this body of work and calling for closer public sector spending scrutiny in the next term. However, Gardiner operated in a scrutiny rather than executive capacity, and several PAC recommendations were explicitly rejected by Government, meaning the promise's ambition of reducing wasteful spending was only partially realised: the oversight mechanism was active and well-evidenced, but measurable reductions in public waste attributable to her direct action were not independently verified.
Candidate will pursue measures to make home ownership more affordable, especially for younger Islanders.
No recorded vote yet“Make home ownership affordable by finding ways to make such ownership achievable, particularly for younger Islanders.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Inna Gardiner served as Minister for Children and Education (2022–23) and then as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee — neither role gave her direct responsibility for housing policy. Her vote.je profile credited her with ensuring a 50% open-allocation rule for affordable housing in country parishes, but no independent reporting or States Assembly records linked her specifically to propositions, amendments, or scrutiny work targeting home ownership affordability for younger Islanders. The principal home-ownership measure of the term — Jersey's First Step assisted home ownership scheme, piloted from February 2024 — was driven by Housing Ministers David Warr and Sam Mézec, with no identified contribution from Gardiner. Insufficient evidence was found to assess whether she pursued this manifesto commitment through other channels such as oral questions, written questions, or backbench amendments.
Candidate will introduce neighbourhood enhancement schemes to encourage development in St Helier.
No recorded vote yet“Encourage the development of St Helier by the introduction of neighbourhood enhancement schemes.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIAs) in St Helier were formally designated in 2022 by the Constable, with Gardiner actively championing their funding throughout the 2022–2026 term. She secured a Budget 2025–2028 amendment (P.51/2024, Amendment 23) committing up to £500,000 for NIA programmes, and then a further successful amendment in the December 2025 Budget debate (P.70/2025, Amendment 21) to ringfence £167,000 per year for 2026–2028, matched by parish rates funding. Physical works on Pomona Road were completed in 2025 and Poonah Road followed, with the next NIA at Clearview Street in planning as of early 2026 — demonstrating meaningful delivery of the concept. However, only the first two of the original five designated NIAs had been physically completed by the end of Gardiner's term, and the broader £500,000 government-matched funding had still not been fully drawn down as of the 2025 review, leaving several remaining NIA areas outstanding.
Candidate will work to provide educational opportunities for Islanders of all ages.
No recorded vote yet“Provide educational opportunities to enable Islanders of any age to achieve and fulfil their potential.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Deputy Gardiner served as Minister for Children and Education from July 2022 until February 2024, during which she delivered concrete educational gains: she increased student maintenance grants by 10.1% for 2022–23 and a further 3.8% for 2023–24, ringfenced £1.6 million per year for school meals, launched a Digital Education Strategy covering schools and Highlands College, and extended free music lesson provision. After leaving ministerial office she lodged P.12/2024 (February 2024), a ten-part higher-education student-funding reform proposition adopted unanimously by the States Assembly on 25 June 2024 in amended form, addressing distance-learning discrimination and clinical-component grant access. However, the amended proposition provided a 'roadmap' rather than immediate implementation, some of its parts were deferred pending a broader review, and her separate June 2024 proposition to fully fund education or training for all 16–18-year-olds was still outstanding at the end of the term — meaning the promise of lifelong educational opportunity for Islanders 'of any age' was substantially advanced but not comprehensively delivered.
Candidate will pursue sustainability across community, economy and environment.
No recorded vote yet“Pursue sustainability by creating a healthy stable community, a thriving economy and an eco-friendly environment.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Deputy Gardiner served as Minister for Children and Education (2022–2023) and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, roles primarily focused on governance and community rather than direct environmental or economic sustainability policy. On the community and neighbourhood dimension, she successfully brought budget amendments in both the 2025–2028 and 2026–2029 Government Plans to secure up to £500,000 for St Helier neighbourhood improvement and regeneration projects, with street-level work begun on Pomona Road and Poonah Road. However, no distinct, independently verified sustainability strategy, eco-environment initiative, or economy-diversification measure specifically attributable to her was identified; the promise was broad and aspirational, and her work largely addressed the community strand rather than the economy or eco-environment strands in any targeted way.
Candidate will support the agricultural community to deliver food security and affordability.
No recorded vote yet“Deliver food security and affordability by supporting our agricultural community and a greater connection between town and country.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022-2026 Assembly term, Deputy Gardiner served as Minister for Children and Education (July 2022–January 2024) and subsequently as President of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee; neither role carried an agriculture or food security remit. Her States Assembly record shows no proposition, scrutiny report, or ministerial decision specifically targeting food security or agricultural support. Her sole identifiable activity related to this promise was a June 2023 public engagement with the Thrive Jersey 'GROW Jersey' community food-growing initiative — a charity project she had helped establish before re-election — which, while aligned in spirit, does not constitute a policy delivery. Government-level agricultural support during the term was led by the Minister for Rural Economy rather than by Gardiner.
Candidate will demand a balanced population strategy addressing skills needs and natural resource protection.
No recorded vote yet“Demand a population strategy that finds the balance between our need for skills and labour and our need to protect our natural resources.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Jersey's States Assembly adopted a statutory Common Population Policy in February 2022, with annual reports published in 2023, 2024 and 2025 that addressed the balance between labour/skills needs and constraints on population growth on a small island; the policy explicitly acknowledged that finite land and infrastructure act as constraints on population growth. However, no evidence was found that Deputy Gardiner personally drove or propositioned this agenda: her recorded propositions in the 2022–2026 term focused on higher-education funding (P.12/2024), ageing infrastructure (P.50/2025) and budget amendments, not population strategy specifically. The broader 'balance' she called for was partially reflected in official policy, but the natural-resources dimension remained underdeveloped in the published CPP reports, and Gardiner's individual contribution to demanding this balance could not be verified from authoritative sources.
Candidate will support economic diversification by promoting new industries alongside existing businesses.
No recorded vote yet“Diversify the economy by creating and supporting new industries whilst ensuring our existing businesses thrive.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Deputy Gardiner served as a backbench independent member throughout the 2022–2026 term and held no ministerial portfolio with direct economic policy responsibility. Web searches of States Assembly records, Hansard, and Jersey media found no propositions, amendments, or formal interventions by Gardiner specifically directed at economic diversification or new industry creation; her recorded Assembly activity centred on neighbourhood regeneration, scrutiny of government spending, and housing. Jersey's government-led Future Economy Programme (formally launched October 2023) addressed diversification themes island-wide but was driven by the Economic Development Minister, not by Gardiner. Insufficient independent evidence exists to assess whether she meaningfully advanced this manifesto commitment.
Candidate will reduce public sector waste while ensuring health, education and pensions are properly funded.
No recorded vote yet“I will continue working to reduce waste and inefficiency in the public sector and at the same time ensure that health, education and pensions are properly funded.” — Inna Gardiner, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Gardiner actively pursued the public-sector waste/efficiency component throughout 2022-2026, chairing the Public Accounts Committee and producing reviews on procurement, arm's-length bodies, complaints-handling, and annual accounts, culminating in a PAC Legacy Report in April 2026. On education, she served briefly as Minister for Children and Education (2022-2023), ringfenced funds for school meals and inclusion, increased student maintenance grants, and successfully brought a Higher Education Student Funding proposition in 2024. However, the health-funding strand fell materially short: as PAC chair she publicly warned in February 2026 that the Health Insurance Fund was 'not sustainable in its present form,' that no clear plan had been developed despite a 2021 actuarial warning, and that her own budget amendments aimed at protecting the fund were rejected by the Assembly at two consecutive Budget debates.
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