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Next week is an important one for Jersey. It’s the week the States Assembly sets the direction of the island’s public finances for the next four years. It’s vital that we get this Medium Term Financial Plan right so we can support the emerging economic recovery and invest in priority areas, like health and education. … Read more Our plan for Jersey
Registering a birth or a death is a big deal. These are emotional times that do not benefit from the unnecessary clutter of visits and paperwork. These two life events are amongst the first to be stitched together by the Tell Us Once team working with a host of different service providers and front and … Read more Tell Us Once with the Parish Registrars
Earlier this month saw the publication of the Jersey Innovation Review. It was undertaken by Tera Allas, an acclaimed international expert in innovation policy, and is a comprehensive piece of work that is already proving to be highly influential as we start to ramp up our policy efforts in this area. The review made a … Read more Supporting innovation
Gov.je is in the #1 spot on the GovMetric Channel Satisfaction Index for August. This follows last months good news that for the first time, www.gov.je took first place in the Sitemorse UK local government quarterly index. Customer satisfaction measurement at the point of contact GovMetric is the feedback tool that you see in the bottom right-hand … Read more Gov.je does it again. We’ve been ranked No 1 for satisfaction
Who hates passwords? Passwords are a pain. I have hundreds of them. I try to be good and come up with long, complex, hard to guess ones – but that makes them impossible to remember. So some of mine are just variations of others. I don’t think I am unusual in that regard – in fact … Read more Towards a digital ID: part 1
Following on from my recent blog, which set out our intentions to establish a Design Authority, we’ve published an invitation to tender on our procurement portal. We’ve had lots of feedback about our procurement process and aim to continue to develop the approach. For this tender we’ve decided to make all of the initial documentation publicly … Read more eGov Design Authority Invitation to Tender
This week people in Jersey will have the chance to see the designs of some of the most innovative buildings in Britain when the Jersey Architecture Biennale 2015 rolls into town. It’s a chance to see what’s positive and exciting about local design (and there’s plenty) and the contributions professional planners and architects make to … Read more Planning to reduce red tape? Yes, we really are
This is the first of a two part blog. In this first part I’ll focus on the general approach to Tell Us Once. In the second part I’ll focus on the progress we have made. You can be forgiven for thinking that eGov focuses on technological changes and, more specifically, Internet services. The truth is, … Read more The eGov ‘Tell Us Once’ programme: part 1
In the past few weeks we have witnessed distressing scenes as thousands of people flee desperate situations in their homelands. More than 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year. Jersey has a long history of responding generously to humanitarian need and I believe it is right that we do what … Read more Playing our part
Priorities As Minister for Social Security my priorities are to ensure that the department can meet the needs of an ever changing population, to stress that work pays and to introduce policies that promote fairness and financial independence. Sustainability As with every department we are trying to do more with less. An aging population and … Read more Social Security Minister on doing more with less