Work will continue on hundreds of States resolutions after the States voted to keep them on their ever growing ‘to-do’ list.
The list of ‘extant resolutions’ – including policies, proposals, requêtes, and amendments previously backed by the States but not yet progressed – numbered 360 in May.
Today, the States agreed to knock nine off that list – removing eight entirely and amending one – with work allowed to continue on 351 resolutions.
Some of the resolutions are nearly 25-years-old, while others were added to the list earlier this year.
Among the oldest resolutions that still need progressing are States decisions to direct law changes around ‘Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms’ and ‘Proposals for Comprehensive Equal Status and Fair Treatment Legislation’ which were both approved in 2003, and ‘International Conventions Affecting Children, Young People and their Families’ which was backed in 2005.
More recent resolutions include work approved during the Budget debate last November which has not yet progressed, such as cutting vacant roles that haven’t been filled after six months.
One of the extant resolutions removed from the list today was the proposal to build key worker housing on a field within the grounds of the Princess Elizabeth Hospita.
This proposal had been rejected by deputies via a requête and the planning application had been withdrawn, but it remained on the ‘to-do list’.
Other work-streams removed from the list include proposed changes to benefit rates suggested in 2019 and 2022, and plans to work on re-introducing motor tax in 2019.
The full list can be seen HERE.
It’s not the first time the States’ has tried to manage its workload amid an ever-growing to-do list.
In 2021, the then-States voted to remove 135 resolutions from the list.
At that time, the then-P&R suggested dropping some of the work so the island could focus resources on new priorities following Covid-19 and Brexit.
