Big spenders
Monday 27th October 2008, 3:00PM GMT.
STATES spending on consultants has almost doubled since the start of ministerial government.
Figures obtained by the JEP reveal how much ministers have spent on consultants, hotel accommodation and travel over the last two years. They also show what was spent before ministerial government began in December 2005.
The figures were obtained under the Code of Practice on Public Access to Official Information. The three-year spending on consultants’ fees and expenses topped £7.7m over the three-year period, while travel costs reached £2.7m — and £1.3m was spent on hotel accommodation.
Among the biggest spenders was Economic Development Minister Philip Ozouf, who took consultant spending from £272,000 under his predecessor to totals of £950,000 and £907,000 in 2007 and 2006 respectively.
Pictured: A consultant with EDAW outlines a strategy for St Helier at the Town Hall in 2007
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1.3m /3 = £433333/52 = £8333.33 a week on hotel accommodation,
2.7m/3 =900000 / 52 = 17307.69 a week on travel, what a joke!
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“Money coming out of our ears.” Some politicians don’t seem to realise that those days are long gone. Is it correct that they want consultants to study the feasibility/cost of a bridge to France?!!!! And a new finance centre – at the start of a global recession and when the favourite candidate for the next President of the USA has stated he wants to do away with tax havens!!
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yea, it’s the jersey way alright get used to it
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What are the chief officers getting paid for then? if we use consultants why do we need these high paid civil servants or is it the CYA syndrome (cover your ar*e).
Use one or the other and save the tax payer a fortune.
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Consultants provide first class ‘fig leaves’ for those who are feeling a little exposed. The increasing dependence on consultants suggest our Ministerial Government is feeling increasingly exposed.
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The idea of a bridge to France was being casually batted around on the Sunday Roast, Channel 103 yesterday lunch time.
Peter Walsh suggested a £5M fee for a team of consultants to do a quick feasilbilty study!
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Queree! Queree! Queree!
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I Bet philip is pleased we did not find out this during his election campaign
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total squandering i would call it.
for the amount of money spent, has the taxpayer
seen a good return for his or her cash?
i very doubt it, and i may be wrong in saying this.
i feel sure that someone will correct me here,
or enlighten me to the full benifits of these services.
lets have some homegrown ideas and stand by the outcome.we do have some clever people living on this island
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To Dave Brown:
The disgusting situation with the enriching banana is a good case in point that proves very well that Jersey’s politicians spend OUR money anyway they see fit, but in ways that seem to enrich all the wrong people and not the island itself.
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It will be profligate consultants called in by the Transport and Technical Services – costing many,many thousands of pounds in fees who all and sundry can blame ( as much as the Administration) for the ill gotten advice to build yet ANOTHER outrageously costly “dead duck” incinerator instead of taking the far better biomass, carbon neutral “zero to landfill” technology – as offered by one of the world’s most reputable engineering companies.
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was there a better cleaner alternative?
do you know how much that was to cost the taxpayer?
this project has only escalated in cost while its been talked about for quite some time now.
(if in doubt hold a meeting to discuss the next meeting)
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