Members are also due to decide whether former Durrell chief executive Paul Masterton should be re-elected as a non-executive director of the Jersey Development Company, and if £360,000 in compensation should be paid to businessman Roy Boschat, who was named as a suspect in an anti-corruption investigation in 2006 but never convicted.
The income support amendments are in three parts. The most contentious is that parents receiving States support could have their benefits stopped if they fail to start looking for work once their child is eligible for free nursery care in the year the child becomes four. The previous rule was that parents were exempt from the job-seeking requirement until a child’s fifth birthday.
To support this amendment, Social Security Minister Susie Pinel is seeking to increase funding for eligible parents by 3.3% and widen the range of child care for which those parents can claim funding, also enabling parents with shared responsibility more flexibility if they want to work reduced hours.
Questions to which ministers will be required to provide written answers focus on employment next week, including job opportunities in the international mining sector, redeployment at Visit Jersey and performance-related pay in the public sector, with two questions relating to complaints about Environment Department officers.
A mixed bag of oral questions include three on the States of Jersey Development Company’s finance centre development, including one from Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel chairman Deputy John Le Fondré asking Treasury Minister Alan Maclean whether he finds it acceptable that the company failed to supply the panel with requested information required to complete their review, and what action he intends to take.
St Helier Deputy Russell Labey is asking about parking spaces for Andium Homes residents, St Helier Deputy Montfort Tadier has tabled a question about ward closures and adult mental health services, and there are three questions based on economic information from the International Monetary Fund and the OECD.
There is just one public Scrutiny Panel hearing this week, on Thursday at 2.30 pm, when the Corporate Services panel will question Chief Minister Ian Gorst on the International Finance Centre plans.
