The Government of Jersey () is the executive body of the States of Jersey and is the central government of the Bailiwick of Jersey. The government is led by the Chief Minister (currently Lyndon Farnham, since 2024), who nominates all the remaining ministers, all elected by the States Assembly.

All Ministers of the Government are required to be elected States members and are accountable to it. the executive and legislative functions have been split between the Council of Ministers and States Assembly respectively. In 2019, the Council of Ministers formally adopted the identity of the 'Government of Jersey' for the executive responsibilities of the States.

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| rowspan="7" |Office of the Chief Executive

|CEO and Head of Public Service

|Paul Martin

<small>Interim from March</small>

|Chief Minister

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|Chief of Staff

|Catherine Madden

|Chief Minister

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|Financial Services and Digital Economy

|Richard Corrigan

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|Economy

|Dan Houseago

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|Communications

|Dirk Danino-Forsyth

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|External Relations

|Kate Nutt

|Ian Gorst

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|Partnerships

|TBD

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| rowspan="3" |Customer and Local Services (CLS)

<small>Director General: Ian Burns</small>

|Customer Services

|Sophie Le Sueur

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|Customer Operations

|Steve Jackson

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|Local Services

|Paul McGinnety

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| rowspan="3" |Children, Young People, Education and Skills (CYPES)

<small>Director General: Mark Rogers</small>

|Children's Services

|Susan Devlin

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|Education

|Seán O'Regan

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|Young People, Further Education, Skills and Learning

|Saboohi Famili

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| rowspan="4" |Health and Community Services (HCS)

<small>Director General: Caroline Landon</small>

|Group Managing Director

|Rob Sainsbury

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|Group Medical Director

|Patrick Armstrong <small>Interim</small>

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|Chief Nurse

|Rose Taylor

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|Health Modernisation

|Hilary Lucas

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| rowspan="5" |Infrastructure, Housing and Environment (IHE)

<small>Acting Director General: Andrew Scate</small>

|Natural Environment

|Willie Peggie

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|Operations and Transport

|Ellen Littlechild

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|Regulation

|TBD

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|Property

|Tim Daniels

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|Capital Projects

|TBD

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|Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)

<small>Director General: Julian Blazeby</small>

|Public Protection and Law Enforcement

|Kate Briden

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| rowspan="5" |Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance

<small>Director General: Tom Walker</small>

|Policy

|TBD

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|Strategic Planning and Performance

|Dr Anuschka Muller

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|Strategy and Innovation

|Steve Skelton

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|Statistics Jersey

|Dr Duncan Gibaut, Chief Statistician

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|Medical Officer of Health

|Dr Ivan Muscat

<small>Deputy</small>

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| rowspan="5" |Treasury and Exchequer

<small>Director General: Richard Bull</small>

|Comptroller of Revenue

|Richard Summersgill

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|Strategic Finance

|Alison Rogers

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|Performance Accounting and Reporting

|Steven Mair

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|Treasury and Investment Management

|Simon Hayward

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|Risk and Audit

|Mike Thomas

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| rowspan="3" |Cabinet Office (was Chief Operating Office)

<small>Chief Operating Officer: John Quinn</small>

|People and Corporate Services

|Mark Grimley

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|Commercial Services

|Maria Benbow

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|Modernisation and Digital

|Fiona Capstick

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In April 2018, the States approved changes to the Government machinery. The Chief Executive was appointed the Principal Accounting Officer for public finances, giving them the control and responsibility for government spending. The Government states this change has improved funding allocations and government transparency. In February 2022, the Democratic Accountability and Governance Sub-Committee.

The same proposition also proposed to make the Government a single legal entity. Currently, each Minister forms a single corporation sole, however when the changes are implemented (as they have been approved), 'Jersey Ministers' as a single entity will become legally responsible for all areas of government. The argument in favour of this is that it will allow more cross-Ministerial working. However, some are worried that this move would lead to more centralisation of power in the Chief Minister and Chief Executive.

Departments

Office of the Chief Executive

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|CEO and Head of Public Service

|Suzanne Wiley

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|Chief of Staff

|Catherine Madden

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|Communications

|Dirk Danino-Forsyth

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|External Relations

|Kate Nutt

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The Office of the Chief Executive '[works] to support the Council of Ministers in delivering [the Government of] Jersey's long-term strategic objectives'. It answers to the Council of Ministers as a whole, however its primary Ministers are the Chief Minister, Minister for External Relations and Assistant Chief Minister for Communications. The department is structured into the –

  • Office of the Chief of Staff - supports Ministers and day-to-day Government business
  • External Relations Directorate - handles Jersey's relationship with other countries, including the UK
  • Directorate of Communications - 'aims to inform, educate and persuade islanders so that their daily lives are enhanced by the Government, and their voices are heard by the elected Council of Ministers'

Customer and Local Services

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|Director General

|Ian Burns

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|Customer Services

|Sophie Le Sueur

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|Customer Operations

|Steve Jackson

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|Local Services

|Paul McGinnety

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Customer and Local Services' mission statement is 'CLS's priority is making it easy for customers'. Customer and Local Services is split into three directorates, two of which are split into 'Hubs' –

  • Customer Operations Directorate
  • Work and Family Hub - income support, work-related benefits, Housing Advisory Service
  • Pensions and Care Hub - pensions, long-term care, and income support for pensioners
  • Customer Services Directorate
  • Business Hub - business licensing, employer contributions and manpower
  • Service Hub - registration cards, customs and passports, One Gov support, People Hub
  • Local Services Directorate - Superintendendent Registrar, libraries, disability strategy and Crematorium

Children, Young People, Education and Skills

The department is organised into four directorates –

  • Directorate of Children's Social Care - safeguarding, Children in Need, residential care, fostering and adoption
  • Education Directorate - schools, colleges, curriculum, teaching and learning, child care regulation, special educational needs
  • Directorate of Young People, Further Education, Higher Education and Skills - skills and lifelong learning, Skills Jersey, Youth Service, Highlands College
  • Directorate of Integrated Services and Commissioning - Family and community support, CAMHS, department operations

Economy

The department for the Economy was established on 1 January 2022 after splitting from the Office of the Chief Executive. The department is organised into four directorates –

  • Local and Digital Economy
  • High Value Residency
  • Digital Economy, including telecoms, cyber and Data Protection
  • Local Economy, including well as rural and marine, retail and visitor, aviation, growth, trade and arts and culture
  • Financial Services
  • Financial Crime Strategy
  • Economic Advisory - competition, intellectual property, Economics

Health and Community Services

The Department of Health and Community Services is the department of the Minister for Health and Social Services. The department is organised into -

  • Adult Social Care, Mental Health & Community Services
  • Primary and Preventative Care
  • Women's, Children's and Family Services
  • Surgical and Scheduled Care
  • Therapies
  • Immediate Care
  • Quality and Safety
  • Non-Clinical Support Services
  • Corporate Nursing
  • Service Improvement and Innovation

Infrastructure, Housing and Environment

The Department of Infrastructure, Housing and Environment manages national infrastructure and the regulation of Jersey's natural and built environment. It employs 678 people and has a £77 million budget, managing £1 billion in property assets. It is organised into four directorates:

  • Operations and Transport - maintenance of open spaces, gardens and amenities; management of transport, traffic and waste systems
  • Transport Highways and Infrastructure
  • Engineering and Development
  • Solid Waste Management and Recovery
  • Liquid Waste Management
  • Technical Support Services
  • Sports Operations
  • Natural Environment Directorate - Channel Islands Met Office, government vet services, fisheries protection & territorial water management, countryside access, biodiversity and crops and vegetation.
  • Marine Resources and Management
  • Biodiversity team
  • Office of the Chief Veterinarian
  • Land Resource Management
  • Meteorology Office
  • Property and Capital Delivery - maintenance of States property, delivery of capital projects
  • Property Strategy
  • Project Delivery
  • Estates and Property Maintenance
  • Commissioning
  • Regulation - Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVS), housing and food regulation, consumer protection, pollution control, town and country planning, border controls for plants and animals
  • Development and Land
  • Regulatory Improvement
  • DVS
  • Environmental and Consumer Protection

Justice and Home Affairs

Justice and Home Affairs manages the island's law enforcement, emergency services, immigration and customs and health and safety services and laws.

The department is split into a number of 'services':

  • States of Jersey Ambulance
  • States of Jersey Fire & Rescue
  • States of Jersey Prison Service
  • Jersey Customs and Immigration Service
  • Health and Safety Inspectorate
  • Official Analyst
  • Jersey Field Squadron
  • States of Jersey Police

Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance

Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance 'leads strategic policy, planning and performance to achieve the ambitions of Islanders for the future'.

They are responsible for –

  • Future Jersey
  • Government strategic policies: Common Strategic Policy, Government Plan and Island Plan
  • Policy programme and development
  • Legislative programme
  • Scenario planning and long-term planning
  • Performance analysis, reporting and framework
  • Corporate Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management

The department is divided into –

  • Directorate of Policy - 4 Heads of Policy
  • Justice and Criminal Justice Policies
  • Education, skills, Family law justice, Structure and government organisation and constitution
  • Children, Families, Care Inquiry, Wellbeing and health
  • Population and migration, housing, social assistance, social inclusion, diversity and employment and labour markets
  • Director of Strategy and Innovation -
  • Sustainability and Foresight: Sustainability; Environment, energy and climate change, Foresight, Development of Future Jersey, Strategy reviews and capability
  • Planning Policy and Historic Environment: Planning policy (Island Plan) and supplementary planning guidance, housing land supply, place-making and master-planning, urban design policy, historic environment
  • Directorate of Strategic Planning and Performance -
  • Strategic Planning and Accountability: Strategic planning framework, Common strategic policy, Government plan, Department Business Plans, Strengthening public sector accountability, business planning capability
  • Strategic Performance Management: strategic performance management framework, corporate annual reports, insight and analysis, performance management capability
  • Health and Social Care informatics: information culture across government, Informatics Strategy, health and social care informatics
  • Head of Governance
  • Delivery planning and performance review
  • Best practice governance of resources
  • Governance of Department Arms Length Functions
  • Department improvement
  • Working with partners

Treasury and Exchequer

The States Treasury is divided into four teams -

  • Housing and Cost of Living
  • Economy and Skills
  • Children and Families
  • Ageing Population
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Environment
  • Community

The strategic priorities for the 2018 to 2022 Government contained five strategic priorities, 8 common themes and 5 ongoing initiatives:

  1. Put children first
  2. Improve Islander's wellbeing and mental and physical health
  3. Create a sustainable, vibrant economy
  4. Reduce income inequality and improve the standard of living
  5. Protect and value our environment

Local government

Jersey is divided into 12 parishes, which are further divided into vingtaines (or, in St. Ouen, cueillettes), divisions that are historic. Today they are used chiefly for purposes of local administration and electoral constituency. Each parish has their own Assembly.

See also

  • Law of Jersey
  • Politics of Jersey
  • States Assembly
  • Council of Ministers

References