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THE cost of living has increased by 7% more in Jersey than in the UK over the past 14 years, a new report has found.

PLANS to expand the chargeable hours for using St Helier’s public car parks have been blocked after the States passed a Government Plan amendment.

MINISTERS do not yet know how they will fund a £700,000 gap in government finances after Members rejected imposing additional charges on parking.

HIKING up alcohol prices again will have an impact on the number of tourists coming to the Island, according to the Assistant Treasury Minister.

THE success of the government’s campaign to get Islanders to quit smoking has left a £2 million hole in public finances, the Treasury Minister has confirmed.

WORK to reduce the price of alcohol in Jersey will be put on the back burner with other bigger projects higher up the ‘things to do list’.

A DEPUTY who has been a vocal opponent of increasing alcohol duties has said he plans to table an amendment to try to block the latest proposed tax hike.

A TYPE of road tax will have to be considered to boost States income because of the potential increase in the number of electric vehicles, according to the States Assistant Treasury Minister.

THE Assistant Treasury Minster has accepted that work to reform and improve the oversight of States-owned companies in his department has ‘not been as quick as we would have liked’.

DECRIMINALISING and carefully regulating recreational-cannabis use in Jersey would ensure strong forms of the class B-drug were kept out of use and away from young people, according to a Deputy.