You may be aware that a Digital Strategy was recently launched by the Committee for Economic Development (“ED”). As the nominated political representative for the Committee on Digital matters I helped to launch the strategy in the media through interviews with the press and radio. I am also closely involved with the aims of the document and chair the Digital … Read More
Communications
I caught a few minutes of the BBC phone recently on a Sunday morning – it was a sunny one and too good to be in listening to the radio – but there was a query about States consultation from a caller, which caught my attention. The chap said that he had not known anything, until the last moment, about … Read More
Waste Strategy
Ongoing debate on this for the last 20 years at least. Our Mont Cuet hole is fast filling and the policy letter submitted by E & I had the unenviable task of delivering au fait accompli to the States. All aspects of the policy letter that members have been asked to vote on had been decided upon in various different … Read More
Motion of No Confidence in Committee
I sit on 2 Committees in the States, one is for Economic Development and the other Education Sport & Culture. Following the recent debate in November 2016 about whether or not to retain selection at 11 a vote of no confidence was threatened by a group of 7 Deputies in an attempt to oust the current Committee for Education Sport … Read More