Policy & Resources Committee

"Government of Guernsey" redirects here. For the executive body that governs the Bailiwick, see States of Guernsey. This article is about the modern committee, for the previous committee, see Policy Council of Guernsey.

Policy and Resources Committee of Guernsey

Committee overview
Formed	1 May 2016 (2016-05-01)
Preceding committee	Policy Council
Jurisdiction	States of Guernsey
Headquarters	Sir Charles Frossard House, La Charroterie, St. Peter Port, GY1 1FH
Employees	5
Committee executive	Lyndon Trott, President Vice-President
Website	Policy and Resources Committee

The Policy & Resources Committee is the Senior Committee of the system of government in Guernsey. It was created on 1 May 2016 to replace the Policy Council of Guernsey.

Guernsey generally operates a system of government by committees and consensus. There were no registered political parties until 2020. The States of Deliberation is both parliament and executive, but it delegates most of its executive functions to policy-specific committees, which are known as the six principal committees, each of which is run by five political members, all of whom have equal voting power.

Objectives

To provide advice for the States of Guernsey, to develop policies and programmes and to implement such policies when approved relating to:

• Leadership and co-ordination of the work of the States
• Fiscal policy, economic affairs and the financial and other resources of the States
• External relations and international and constitutional affairs
• Other matters which have been delegated to the Committee

Committee

The committee is elected by States Deputies until the next general election. The next election will be in June 2025.

The current committee comprises a president and four members.

The president of the committee is the de facto head of government of Guernsey and may be given the title Chief Minister. The vice president may also use the title Deputy Chief Minister.

One person in the committee is nominated as Lead Person for External Affairs; the title Minister for External Affairs is sometimes used.

Portfolio	Deputy	Appointed	Title	Notes
President	Lyndon Trott	13 December 2023	Chief Minister
Vice President	Heidi Soulsby	14 December 2023	Deputy Chief Minister
	John Gollop	14 December 2023
	Jonathan Le Tocq	14 December 2023	Minister for External Affairs
	Bob Murray	14 December 2023
Head of the Public Service	Mark De Garis	13 July 2022

Election

The 40 States Deputies hold an election to determine the President, with successive rounds of voting continuing until an outright winner is elected. All candidates having to be proposed and seconded.

Shortly afterwards, the newly elected president may name his preferred committee members, however it is the votes of the States Deputies that elect the remaining four committee members. All candidates having to be proposed and seconded.

A lost vote to a motion of "no confidence" in the committee results in the immediate resignation of the President and Members of the Policy & Resources Committee, the States of Deliberation having no confidence in the said Committee and will result in an immediate election of first a new President and then the new committee members.

Avoidance of conflict of interest

No person on the Committee may be a president or member of the six principal committees, or of the Scrutiny Management Committee, the Development & Planning Authority, or the Transport Licensing Authority.

Six principal committees

• Committee for Economic Development
• Committee for Health & Social Care
• Committee for Education, Sport & Culture

• Committee for Employment & Social Security
• Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure
• Committee for Home Affairs

Civil servants

The Policy and Resources Committee is assisted by key civil servants:

• Chief Executive
• Chief Strategy and Policy Officer
• Chief Operating Officer

• States Treasurer
• Chief Information Officer

See also

• Politics of Guernsey
• List of current heads of government in the United Kingdom and dependencies
• Council of Ministers of the Isle of Man
• Council of Ministers of Jersey

External links

• States of Guernsey – Policy & Resources Committee