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Deputy for St Brelade · Independent
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Deputy for St Brelade · Independent
Will fight to reduce poverty and inequality and expand opportunity for all islanders.
No recorded vote yet“I will fight relentlessly to reduce poverty and inequality, to expand opportunity for all.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Deputy Renouf made a tangible contribution to reducing inequality through housing standards: as Environment Minister he piloted the landmark landlord licensing scheme (P.40/2023) through the Assembly in November 2023 — passed 37 votes to nine — which came into force in August 2024, giving enforcement powers to protect low-income and vulnerable tenants from substandard accommodation. As Vice-Chair of the Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel from early 2024, he actively questioned the Social Security Minister on the living wage target and income support, holding government to account on poverty-adjacent issues. However, his own 2026 manifesto (jonathanrenouf.je, June 2026) conceded that his push to remove mortgage interest tax relief for landlords — a direct inequality measure — had 'yet to be won', and that work on empty homes ceased with the change of government in January 2024; no standalone anti-poverty proposition was lodged by Renouf, and Jersey's broader poverty indicators showed no confirmed systemic improvement over the term.
Will work with local stakeholders to improve facilities and services in St Brelade.
No recorded vote yet“I will work with the parish, businesses and the community to improve the facilities and services in St Brelade.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 term, Renouf demonstrably engaged with parish improvement: he backed the Elephant Park toilet-block upgrade approved by parishioners in April 2026 (JEP), supported the Les Creux country-park community-resource initiative, and spoke in favour of the Les Quennevais reinvigoration proposition in October 2025 (JEP). However, a co-deputy's detailed account from September 2025 recorded that work on Quennevais Parade and Precinct — a specific focus of the original promise — had yielded 'very little progress,' and Renouf's own 2026 manifesto framed the redevelopment of the Elephant Park and Les Creux as still ahead, suggesting the broader facilites-and-services ambition remained only partly achieved by the end of the term.
Will support measures to increase housing supply, reduce demand and improve affordability.
No recorded vote yet“I support a package of measures to increase supply, reduce demand and improve affordability.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 term, Renouf actively engaged across all three strands of his housing promise. As Environment Minister (July 2022 – January 2024) he prepared and published an 87-page supplementary planning guidance document (November 2023) enabling progress on affordable-home delivery across 11 Bridging Island Plan re-zoned sites, and oversaw planning reforms aimed at increasing supply. On the demand-reduction side, the government he served in introduced a higher-rate stamp duty surcharge on non-principal-residence properties from January 2023, and Andium Homes continued delivering social housing at scale. However, Renouf's own 2026 manifesto acknowledged that his effort to remove mortgage interest tax relief for landlords — a key demand-reduction measure he had championed — had 'yet to be won', and the second-home stamp duty surcharge was subsequently reduced in the 2026 Budget rather than strengthened, indicating incomplete delivery of the demand-side package.
Will push for increased investment in education and training.
No recorded vote yet“Jersey spends less on education and training than similar jurisdictions, yet our future depends on talented, creative islanders. We must invest more.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Deputy Renouf served as Environment Minister until January 2024 and then as a backbencher, with his own mid-term report (June 2024) acknowledging that his principal achievements were on the environmental agenda rather than education. He used written and oral questions to probe school funding sustainability (e.g. OQ.109/2025, May 2025) and apprenticeship data, but no evidence emerged of him lodging a proposition, Government Plan amendment, or ministerial action specifically to increase education or training spending toward OECD averages. The Policy Centre Jersey (May 2026) noted that primary and secondary education had not been priorities for the Council of Ministers during this term, and that the NASEN report identified a £13.1 million need of which only £6 million was agreed — consistent with his backbench concern but not with delivery of his manifesto commitment.
Will fight to achieve a stable long-term population policy for Jersey.
No recorded vote yet“The long term future of Jersey depends on a stable population policy. I will fight to achieve this.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
During the 2022–2026 Assembly term, Deputy Renouf served as Environment Minister from July 2022 to January 2024 and subsequently as a backbench scrutineer; no evidence was found of him lodging a proposition, amendment, or scrutiny review specifically directed at achieving a stable population policy. The pre-existing Common Population Policy framework — requiring annual updates — was maintained by the Council of Ministers, but net immigration rose markedly to 730 in 2023 and 670 in 2024 (per the 2024 and 2025 CPP Annual Reports), moving the island away from the stable population outcome Renouf had championed. The 2024–2026 Council of Ministers also shifted the policy emphasis away from numerical stabilisation and toward managing an ageing demographic, with no specific Renouf-attributed action recorded.
Will support protecting the environment and meeting Jersey's carbon neutrality commitment.
No recorded vote yet“We must continue to protect and enhance our environment, including meeting our commitment to carbon neutrality.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Renouf was appointed Minister for the Environment in July 2022 — directly responsible for the Carbon Neutral Roadmap (CNR) — and during his tenure implemented key CNR measures including incentive schemes for EVs, e-bikes and home heating, and initiated a Marine Spatial Plan targeting 27% marine protection. However, his ministerial term ended abruptly in January 2024 when the government fell, and as a backbencher he continued to push the climate agenda (e.g., lodging a November 2024 budget amendment to reinstate fuel-duty increases for the Climate Emergency Fund). Jersey's independent Climate Council reported in March 2026 that significant 2022 and 2023 emissions targets had not been met and that 2030 targets were 'on the current trajectory, unachievable', indicating the broader carbon-neutrality commitment he championed remained materially off-track by the end of the 2022-2026 term.
Will advocate for greater transparency and openness in government.
No recorded vote yet“Faith in politics has been badly damaged by a secretive and out of touch government. We need a new era of transparency and openness.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Renouf served as Environment Minister from July 2022 to January 2024 and, after the government fell, took on multiple scrutiny roles — including chairing the Hospital Review Panel — through which he actively challenged ministerial secrecy, publishing a 117-page report in February 2025 that highlighted a 'lack of transparency' over hospital costs and called out a minister for abandoning a promised public consultation. He also lodged accountability-focused amendments, such as his October 2024 marine spatial plan amendment demanding clear timelines and government accountability. However, no evidence was found that he pursued his manifesto's specific structural goal — reversing the 'Parker reform' to restore direct ministerial accountability over civil service departments — via a formal proposition, nor that any island-wide transparency reform was enacted during the 2022-26 term attributable to his advocacy.
Will pursue digital innovation, decarbonisation and sustainability to reinvigorate Jersey's economy.
No recorded vote yet“We need to use the opportunities offered by digital innovation, decarbonisation and sustainability to reinvigorate our economy.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
Renouf served as Environment Minister from July 2022 to January 2024 and actively advanced the decarbonisation strand of his promise: he oversaw delivery of Phase 1 of the Carbon Neutral Roadmap (including the launch of the low-carbon heating incentive and EV purchase incentive scheme in 2023), and lodged the landmark offshore wind farm proposition in October 2023, explicitly framing it as a major economic opportunity for the island. After losing his ministerial post in January 2024, he continued to push decarbonisation from the backbench, tabling a November 2024 budget amendment to restore fuel-duty increases for transport decarbonisation. However, Policy Centre Jersey's 2025 analysis found that 13 of 32 Carbon Neutral Roadmap actions were behind schedule and emissions reduction targets for 2022 and 2023 were missed; the separate Digital Economy Strategy consultation (September 2023) was led by the Minister for Sustainable Economic Growth rather than Renouf; and no independent evidence suggests Jersey's economy had been materially reinvigorated through these pillars by the end of the 2022–2026 term.
Will support a major review of the Zero/Ten tax system to reduce the burden on individual taxpayers.
No recorded vote yet“The Zero/Ten tax system is no longer fit for purpose. I support a major review of taxation, with the aim of reducing the burden on individual tax payers.” — Jonathan Renouf, 2022-2026 election manifesto
No evidence emerged of a major government-led review of the Zero/Ten system aimed at reducing the burden on individual taxpayers during the 2022–2026 Assembly term. The main tax change of the period — OECD Pillar Two implementation for large multinationals, which Renouf chaired a scrutiny sub-panel on in autumn 2024 — was driven by international obligations and targeted corporate entities, not individual tax relief. The introduction of independent personal taxation from January 2026 was a structural administrative change rather than a reduction in individual tax burden, and there is no evidence Renouf lodged or formally backed any proposition directly pursuing the Zero/Ten review he promised.
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