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States Greffe: Scrutiny
Deputy Susie Pinel
Minister for Treasury & Resources
By email
3rd March 2020 Dear Minister
Follow Up to Quarterly Hearing
Thank you for the additional information provided by your Private Secretary on 27th February 2020 following the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel's hearing with you on the 11th February 2020.
It was noted in this response that under 7% of 2018 tax returns remain to be assessed. Can you please provide a comparative analysis of this rate of outstanding assessments for the previous 5 years?
If it was not clear in the hearing, I also wanted to clarify that the Panel requested exit interviews for the near 50% of the Tax Office/Revenue Jersey employees that have left the organisation, as well as those of the finance directors. The Panel finds this figure alarming and considers that this high turn-over rate requires further analysis.
The response received in relation to exit interviews for the finance directors was that exit interview notes would not be disclosable as this would breach Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (Parts 2,3, 4 and 6).
The Panel is not satisfied with this response and again requests that all exit interviews (i.e. for officers and finance directors) are provided by the date set out below. The Panel acknowledges that the information may need to remain confidential and be anonymised but does not believe this is a barrier to it being provided to Scrutiny, as per the Scrutiny Code of Practice.
Could you please provide the information requested in this letter by Wednesday 18th March 2020. Please be aware that this letter and your response will be published on our website.
Yours sincerely
Senator Kristina Moore
Chair, Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel
States Greffe: Scrutiny | Morier House | St Helier | Jersey | JE1 1DD Tel: 01534 441080 | email: scrutiny@gov.je | web: statesassembly.gov.je