Samantha Gleave

Samantha Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the 2026–2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving her only approximately three months in office as of 23 September 2026. No propositions, scrutiny panel work, ministerial statements, or other recorded Assembly activity by Gleave specifically advancing planning for an ageing population, retirement communities, or carer support has been found in that short window. Her pre-election involvement with Jersey's dementia strategy oversight group (noted by the Jersey Evening Post in April 2026) is relevant background but predates her Assembly membership. Jersey's wider Ageing Well Roadmap and January 2026 carer support changes were delivered under the previous Assembly term and cannot be attributed to her current promise.

• Samantha Gleave | Vote.je (manifesto)
• Deputy candidate seeks to provide independent voice in St Helier – Jersey Evening Post
• Samantha Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• Common Population Policy Annual Report 2025 (R.14/2026) – States Assembly

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and took up the chairship of the Economics and International Development Scrutiny Panel — the Assembly committee most directly relevant to competition and cost-of-living policy — within weeks of the 2026-2030 Assembly first sitting on 19 June 2026. By August 2026 she was actively using that platform to advocate for consumer-protection and competition measures, publicly calling on Jersey to adopt UK-style anti-subscription-trap legislation and framing consumer protection as integral to the cost-of-living debate. No legislative delivery has yet been achieved, but substantive scrutiny work aligned with her promise is demonstrably under way, and the Assembly has been in session for only approximately three months.

• Call for subscription trap legislation to be introduced in Jersey – Jersey Evening Post
• Samantha Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• Value Jersey Blueprint – 'How To Make Jersey Actually Affordable'
• 2026 Jersey general election – Wikipedia

Samantha Gleave was elected Deputy for St Helier South on 7 June 2026 and, at the States Assembly sitting of 30 June 2026, was appointed Chair of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel — the body with principal oversight of economic delivery and government spending priorities. Her publicly stated panel objectives include testing delivery, reducing unnecessary friction and backing evidence-led outcomes, directly consistent with her manifesto commitment to cut government waste and modernise services. As of 22 September 2026, the Assembly has sat for only around three months and no completed Gleave-led scrutiny report or proposition on government cost reduction has yet been published; however, her appointment to a senior oversight role provides a clear and active mechanism through which the promise may be progressed.

• Former Health Minister appointed Chief Scrutineer – Jersey Evening Post
• Official Report – 30th June 2026 (States Assembly Hansard)
• Samantha Gleave LinkedIn – Panel Chair appointment statement
• EXPLAINED: Who's who in the Class of '26 – Bailiwick Express

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the new 2026-2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving her only around three months in office by the assessment date. By 30 June 2026 she was formally appointed Chair of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel — the committee directly responsible for reviewing the work of the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development — a role directly aligned with her manifesto commitment to reduce business costs and remove unnecessary regulatory barriers. In her LinkedIn post announcing the appointment she stated her intention to support entrepreneurs, reduce unnecessary friction, and back businesses, but no concrete proposition, report or policy change attributable to her had been publicly recorded as of late September 2026.

• Former Health Minister appointed Chief Scrutineer – Jersey Evening Post
• EXPLAINED: Who has taken what jobs in the States? – Bailiwick Express
• Official Report – 30th June 2026 – States Assembly (Hansard)
• Samantha Gleave LinkedIn – appointment statement

Deputy Gleave was elected for St Helier South on 7 June 2026, with the new 2026-2030 Assembly first sitting on 19 June 2026. Searches of statesassembly.je Hansard, Bailiwick Express, the Jersey Evening Post, and other Jersey news sources found no proposition, written question, ministerial statement, or scrutiny activity by Deputy Gleave relating to parking for residents, shoppers or visitors in the roughly three months since her election. Her only recorded Assembly contribution found was on a business and entrepreneurship topic at the 30 June 2026 sitting. Given the very short window of the term to date, this reflects no evidence of progress rather than deliberate inaction.

• DEPUTY: Value Jersey's Samantha Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• States Assembly Official Report – 30 June 2026 (Hansard)
• Samantha Gleave candidate profile – vote.je

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the new Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving her only approximately three months in post as of the assessment date. No propositions, written questions, ministerial statements, or public activity specifically targeting bus services or transport links improvement were found in that window. Furthermore, she was appointed Chair of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel (confirmed by the States Assembly Hansard of 30 June 2026 and Island FM/JEP reporting of July 2026), and also sits on the Planning Committee; transport infrastructure scrutiny falls instead under the Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel chaired by Deputy Hilary Jeune, placing this promise outside her direct scrutiny remit. The very short time elapsed since the Assembly was constituted means the absence of recorded action does not yet indicate failure, but no evidence of progress on this specific commitment exists.

• Island FM: Farnham's planned Council of Ministers confirmed – Gleave assigned to Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel
• JEP: Former Health Minister appointed Chief Scrutineer – panel memberships confirmed
• States Assembly Hansard – 30 June 2026: Gleave appointed Chair of Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel
• Bailiwick Express: Who's who in the Class of '26 – Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Panel (transport remit) chaired by Deputy Jeune, not Gleave

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the 2026–2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving her only approximately three months in office by the assessment date. No evidence was found of any cycling-specific proposition, written question, ministerial statement, scrutiny review, or public campaign action by Gleave on safe and responsible cycling in that period. Bailiwick Express reported in July 2026 that she was appointed Chair of the Children, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel — a portfolio unrelated to transport or cycling — suggesting her early Assembly focus has been elsewhere. The short window since election is noted, but no traceable steps toward this promise have been identified.

• DEPUTY: Value Jersey's Samantha Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• EXPLAINED: Who's who (so far) in the Class of '26? – Bailiwick Express
• Walking and cycling (active travel) – Government of Jersey

Deputy Samantha Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the 2026–2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving her only approximately three months in office as of the assessment date. No evidence was found in States Assembly records, the Jersey Evening Post, Bailiwick Express, ITV Channel, Island FM or gov.je of any proposition lodged, ministerial question tabled, scrutiny panel work undertaken, or public statement made by Gleave specifically relating to increasing green spaces in St Helier South. Her Hansard appearance on 30 June 2026 shows engagement on business and economic matters, not environment or green space. Given the very short window, this should not be read as a failure, but no traceable steps toward this particular commitment have yet been recorded.

• Samantha Gleave elected Deputy of St Helier South – Island FM
• States Assembly Official Report – 30 June 2026 (Hansard)
• Samantha Gleave – Vote.je candidate profile

Deputy Samantha Gleave was elected to the 2026–2030 Assembly on 8 June 2026, topping the poll in St Helier South, with connecting Colomberie, the Waterfront and Havre des Pas listed as a headline local priority on her vote.je manifesto page. As of 22 September 2026 — just over three months into the new Assembly term — no independent reporting, States proposition, ministerial statement, or official policy initiative attributable to Deputy Gleave on this specific connectivity commitment has been identified. The broader issue of Waterfront-to-town connectivity pre-dates her election and remains unresolved, with a previous major Waterfront redevelopment scheme having been rejected in September 2023 partly on connectivity grounds; the new Assembly has not yet produced a successor plan linked to Gleave's work.

• Samantha Gleave – vote.je candidate profile
• DEPUTY: Value Jersey's Samantha Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• WATCH: What has changed in the new multi-million Waterfront plan? – Bailiwick Express

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the 2026-2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026, giving only approximately three months to the assessment date. She was appointed Chair of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel at the 30 June 2026 sitting (confirmed by official Hansard), a role thematically adjacent to reducing friction for businesses and entrepreneurs, but no proposition, ministerial statement, review, or initiative specifically directed at making government services easier to navigate for residents and businesses has been attributed to her in this short window. No independent Jersey source (statesassembly.je, gov.je, JEP, Bailiwick Express) reported any concrete step by Gleave on this specific commitment as of September 2026.

• Official Report – 30 June 2026: Appointment of Chair, Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel
• Bailiwick Express: Who's who in the Class of '26?
• Samantha Gleave LinkedIn – Chair of Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel
• Vote.je – Samantha Gleave manifesto page

Deputy Gleave was elected on 7 June 2026 and the 2026-2030 Assembly first sat on 19 June 2026. By 23 September 2026 — just over three months into the term — no evidence was found of her having lodged a proposition, ministerial statement, or scrutiny action specifically to require proper resident consultation on major decisions such as school relocations. She was appointed Chair of the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel (not the Education panel) on 30 June 2026, per the Jersey Evening Post and States Assembly Hansard, and sits on the Planning Committee, but her public activity to date has focused on economic and international affairs rather than on the governance-of-consultation commitment. The contested Gas Place town primary school relocation remained an active issue, with the new Education Minister Catherine Curtis separately pledging on 30 June 2026 to look at alternative sites, but no Gleave-led consultation initiative was identified. Given the very short window since the Assembly was constituted, this is recorded as outstanding rather than a criticism of failure.

• Deputy Gleave tops the poll in St Helier South – Bailiwick Express
• Samantha Gleave manifesto pledge – Vote.je
• Former Health Minister appointed Chief Scrutineer – Jersey Evening Post
• New Education Minister will 'look at' alternative sites for town primary school – Island FM