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WQ.144/2019
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES BY DEPUTY R.J. WARD OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 12th MARCH 2019
Question
Can the Minister confirm if there are specific plans for the £100,000 passed to Jersey College for Girls to enable Chinese students to attend the school to be repaid in future?
Answer
The funding was allocated to Children, Young People, Education and Skills to be allocated, in turn, to the JCG Foundation.
The assessment of the business case carried out by the Government's Economic Unit states that "£100k could be repaid to Treasury in 2020, if that was a necessary condition of funding. This would be on the condition that the programme achieves the levels of success envisaged. The EPGDP Officer Group will need to work with the Education Department to develop a clear set of criteria to govern the proposed repayment."
The grant is payable by the department to which the funding was allocated (Children, Young People, Education and Skills). It is for that department to work with the grant recipients to consider whether repayment is possible and appropriate. Repayment is not a condition of the allocation of funding to the department. If the grant is repaid in the future the expectation is that it will be returned to central Contingency funding for reallocation.