States Meeting summary 21 January
21 January 2025
Question Time
Questions with notice
This week’s States Meeting began with Ministers answering States Members’ questions with notice.
Skip to page 6 of the Order Paper to find out which questions were asked and watch from 6 minutes into this morning’s recording to hear questions with notice in full.
Questions with notice continued from Oral question 13, following the lunchtime recess. Watch from 1 minute into this afternoon’s recording.
Urgent Oral Question
Deputy Louise Doublet asked an urgent oral question of the Minister for Health and Social Services, Deputy Tom Binet.
“Given the Report has not been formally presented to this Assembly, but appears on the gov.je website, will the Minister provide further details on the plans to separate health services from Government as outlined in his Annual Plan for 2025, including how the new devolved funding of health care would operate?”
Further information on the plans: bit.ly/3CkcKhd
Skip to 21 minutes into this afternoon’s recording to watch the urgent question in full.
Questions without notice
States Members then asked the Minister for Infrastructure, Connétable Andy Jehan; Minister for Social Security, Deputy Lyndsay Feltham; and the Chief Minister, Deputy Lyndon Farnham, questions without notice for 15 minutes each.
Skip to 32 minutes into this afternoon’s recording to watch questions without notice in full.
Statement
The Minister for the Environment made a statement regarding the States of Jersey Complaints Board findings in R.143/2024. Read more: bit.ly/4h0J73D
Skip to 1 hour and 18 minutes into this afternoon’s recording to watch the Statement in full.
Public Business
P.79 Draft Termination of Pregnancy (Jersey) Amendment Law 202-
The Minister for Health and Social Services, Deputy Tom Binet, is proposing to amend the Termination of Pregnancy (Jersey) Law 1997, to remove the current residency requirements. This would allow a person who is not ordinarily resident in Jersey, or who has been resident in Jersey for less than 90 days, to access a termination in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy if other requirements in the Law are satisfied.
Read more: bit.ly/3V5QJbV
Skip to 1 hour and 28 minutes into this afternoon’s recording to watch the debate in full. This was presented in the States by Deputy Andy Howell.
The States Assembly voted to APPROVE the Minister’s proposition with 42 votes for, 0 votes against and 0 abstentions.
Adjournment
The States Assembly then adjourned and will reconvene at 9:30am on Tuesday 4 February.
