• Welcome entrepreneurs with open arms, not put barriers in the way of attracting business. It is vital to ensure Guernsey remains attractive to investors while diversifying the economy.

• Invest in a greener future, to protect Guernsey for future generations i.e Green Finance, Aviation and sustainability etc

• Transparency on the spending process, we must spend our hard earn taxes efficiently and give the people of Guernsey access to see how their island is being run.

• Proper, qualified management of our property portfolio.

• Digital skills and connectivity are the foundations on which new economy will be built. Fast internet and secure energy are also essentials.

•  Support small businesses to ensure a diverse economy and unemployment does not rise.

• Increase tourism by using the shoulder months to help the hospitality, increase sailing races, walking holidays and historic holidays.

• For entrepreneurs we need to promote and create a “one-stop shop” for business registration, licensing, and guidance.

•  Clearing or fixing the abandoned greenhouses to revive the growing industry including Hemp, this requires a change in the IDP which has been started.

•  Only using consultants when necessary and ensuring those consultants are local, where possible.

• Better retention of our current skilled workforce. This could result in a change in the population management so less people were needed.

• All contracts, wherever possible, should be given to local companies to keep money on the island.

• The Harbour Action Area could create many more jobs and residential while diversifying the economy, but making sure we do not ruin what we have. The Local Planning Brief which the DPA complete makes sure development come forward in a co ordinated manner which enhancing the environment and protecting what we love.

• The Local Planning Brief provides a clear and forward-thinking framework to guide and coordinated development while protecting the character of the waterfront. Consulting closely with the Guernsey Development Agency (GDA).

• We should be looking at developing reliable transport links, looking to direct flights to Europe rather than simply UK, therefore reducing the Air Passenger duty making flights cheaper for residents.

• The high street needs help with the amount of vacant units, I believe most of this will come from market forces but as a Government we can help by rejuvenating Mill Street and surrounding areas. we have made planning steps to make it easier to convert the upper floors to residential so no need for planning. The Government is also in Control of TRP!

Fiscal Policy

The government faces a structural challenge in balancing public service demands with a constrained and aging revenue base. Guernsey plans to introduce a 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) from July 2027 as part of a wider tax reform package, which includes income tax cuts for lower earners and changes to social security contributions. The package is expected to raise around £50 million a year, with decisions on food exemptions and the final rate left to the next States Assembly. I supported the introduction of GST because, of careful consideration, it was the only viable option to keep Guernsey competitive and financially stable. However, I do not support putting GST on food. With Jersey and Isle of Man we need to look at adjusting Zero 10. I do not want Guernsey to go into more debt.

Savings must always come first.

Achieving savings: This term the States has extensively explored ways to save money, with the public, input and came to approx. £14million. These works needs to follow through. Simply trimming budgets/services will not deliver - we need substantial structural changes.

Health and Social care

This is a deep personal issue to me. Thanks to the incredible work of the nurses and some doctors, I am still alive and well. However, from my illness I saw many problems within the healthcare system and these have been fixed. Blood tests now all go on the same system so doctors will not miss any. The tracker system has had to be updated urgently so no lives were lost. Although I would not wish that anyone has to go through what I went through, much good has come of it.

We must provide equal pay for nurses working locally. It is not fair that licensed nurses get a rent allowance while local’s do not. I understand it difficult to find somewhere to live. We need to build key-worker housing accessible to the hospital.

Mental Health help is vitally important and needs to work as a multi agency team more so now than ever, as these are our most vulnerable people. The partnership of purpose should really promote prevention. We need more trained mental health practitioners to help with the demand. I feel, as do many people on the Island, that Mental health is not taken seriously enough until it becomes a big problem then can be left too long to sort, so patients are put straight in to Oberlands rather than trying to sort the issues before this, reducing the stress and anxiety. We need to respect people and try to prevent this. i.e People can have anorexia but not be “light enough” for treatment, this does need sorting.

Long Term Care With our population demographic, we must plan for the future and I will continue to fight to ensure our parents and grandparents (our pensioners) get a fair income, good health and social care and are not forced to sell their homes for their long term care.

Prevention By promoting healthier lifestyles and addressing health issues before they escalate, we can reduce long-term reliance on acute services and reducing reliance on costly off-island treatments.

I would like to see closer working of social care and community care. This could prevent time spent in hospital. Basically we need more social care beds so can place people from hospital.

EDUCATION

I have 3 girls are at St Martin’s Primary school and naturally want them to have the best education. We need a strong system in place to allow every child to reach their potential without spending vast sums. I was in favour of selection and fought hard for this to remain, I do regret the decision the States made. However it has been made, trice now! and feel there is no point in returning to this issue. We live in a democracy, the majority have spoken and we need to move on.

Three 11–16 Schools: The island now operates three non-selective secondary schools: Les Beaucamps High School, St Sampson’s High School, and Les Varendes High School (formerly the Grammar School). La Mare de Carteret High School is scheduled to close in 2025 due to building condition and cost concerns.

Separate Sixth Form Centre: A dedicated Sixth Form Centre is planned to be co-located with The Guernsey Institute at Les Ozouets. However, due to construction delays, the Sixth Form Centre will temporarily relocate to the La Mare de Carteret site from 2025 until at least 2029.

My beliefs on this subject are:-

• A good teacher can do more for children than any new building

• We need to stop wasting vast sums of money talking about it and actually invest in our children’s future

• Adopt a system where the highest achievers, healthiest & happiest children are

• we must have smaller class sizes

• We need to forget buildings and look at educational outcomes

• I would be happy with three schools and one 6th form, but feel three 11-18 schools would probably be better.

The future skills are in need throughout your life and we need to continue offering our school leavers the opportunity to access academic and vocational courses. I believe that a re-skilled workforce can achieve their goals and aspirations during their life and look to maintain more of our school leavers on island. Unlike years ago, most people will have a number of careers during their life and the College of FE needs to be able to adapt to these changes, whilst building a strong employment potential within Guernsey, therefore we:

• should continue with the redevelopment of the 6th form centre

• need to give people the opportunity and allow them to reach their full potential, including changing careers

• Guernsey depends on the skills and knowledge of our people and the contribution that each of us make to the Island’s economic success.

I am a strong believer that if you put in the correct foundations, building upon becomes much easier. The 15 hours free nursery places, in my opinion, is very successful and needs to continue as it is promoting equal opportunity.

Environment

We need to invest in a greener future. The Environment should be working for and with the people of Guernsey, not against them but protecting future generations. Protecting the environment must be practical.

The Nature Study which has been approved by the States has now also been adopted by the planning Authority, which I was apart of, however this needs funding.

The Climate Change Action Plan need delivering while balancing economic stability and fairness. I reserve my judgement on the basis of cost.

Climate change affects our coastlines, our infrastructure and way of life. We need to improve the flood defences to protect the built environment. The recent climate change policy letter now needs to be put into action.

Protect the green spaces and heritage

Invest in green finance

Scrap single use bottles

Create a few more drinking fountains. Although this term we have seen a number of drinking fountain created for the Island Games. Paris saves over 2 million single use bottles per year by having drinking fountains including sparkling water

When a tree is felled somewhere it should be replaced by another indigenous one.

Motor tax needs a comprehensive review for all road users to contribute fairly to infrastructure costs, especially as EV adoption increases.

Subsidy on electric bikes has boosted the amount of people not using their cars for short journeys and I'd like to see this extended to help achieve air pollution targets.

Pursue electrical aviation as this could also help the economy and transport links within the Channel Island while better for the environment.

Housing and Development

The Housing review report indicated that Guernsey was the most expensive place in charges within the Channel Island and UK.

As President of Development and Planning Authority I inherited a system that was bogged down with red tape. In time I helped streamline its policies by bringing private sector methods to a once bureaucracy-heavy committee. I support growth that meets demand while protecting our unique environment and community character. We still need further streamlining. Please see my achievements.

IDP review: Continue the review while listening and taking on board views. Everyone agrees we need more homes, but we must build in the right places.While strengthening public/private partnerships between government and developers. Incentivise redevelopment of old greenhouses or unused areas within the main centres leaving green fields alone.

 Rental market: The States have ruined the local rent market by giving subsides to essential workers which has caused rents to increase exceptionally. Stop adding regulation to landlords. Remove the additional 2% document duty on buy-to-let property purchases which has negatively increased rentals.

Help first-time buyers:  By providing grants or loans for first-time buyers struggling with deposits. I think it sad our children are leaving the island because they cannot afford to live here.

Bond reform: I support removing the Bond, which is currently outdated, expensive, and inefficient. It will make it quicker, fairer, and more affordable for all parishioners.

Justice

Being a member of the Home Affairs Committee, there have been a number of big issues that we have resolved this term while keeping the island safe and secure. These are just a few

• Money Val has been a colossal amount of work. In February 2025, Guernsey received a largely positive evaluation from MONEYVAL

• The sexual offences legislation is now up to date

• The Domestic Abuse legislation is now been update and more importantly Sexual Assault Referral Centre Law to regulate the manner in which the SARC retains and discloses evidence and information emanating from clients, including from forensic medical examinations

• We stopped an unnecessary double fence going up at the prison, saving the tax payers millions

• Updated many of the security systems

• Actually started the justice review policy

However there is still a long way to go and in my opinion we must deliver the recommendations of the MoneyVal Review it does not mean we have to adopt them all, some of the ones I believe we should make a priority next term:-

• The Police complaints procedure needs reviewing. The Police Complaint Commission have said it’s outdated and needs changing.

• Criminal sentencing needs addressing, as there are now more tools in the box for judges to use and the parameters need to be reviewed and fairly set to avoid the perception of unfair custodial sentences, for example someone arrested with a small amount of cannabis, verses a drunk driver

• Need the family process to be fair but the future should apply to both family and criminal system.

• Seriously need Algilisys to update the IT system for Home Affairs, especially for the police. We still have a police person to walk a file to court because the computers don’t talk to each other.

• Trading Standards has a small piece of legislation that would make a big difference to the running of our island making it a safer place.

Government

Everyone always says they want an an open and transparent Government, but I have really tried this term and have have made some progress. Deputies are now limited on the amount of time they speak in the chambers to 15 minutes. All Development & Planning Authority meetings are now recorded, which is a step in the right direction as these recordings could be made available if the parishioners wanted to listen. My views on having a more open and effective government are:

• I think that Government should be a more presidential-style system, the government would give the chief minister greater executive power, allowing them to choose their own cabinet or team of ministers. This centralization of authority means the chief minister can act more decisively and implement policies more efficiently

• Bring the States into the 21st Century while ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.