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States preview: P&R names preferred pick for vacant seat
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With the States set to elect a new member of Policy & Resources next week, Tony Curr and Matt Fallaize are joined by P&R’s preferred pick to fill the vacant seat on the top committee — Deputy Yvonne Burford.
Plus there’s a look at what else is on the agenda, including school governance boards and an update statement from Economic Development president Deputy Sasha Kazantseva-Miller, fresh from her trip to a regional economic forum in Brittany.
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Deputy Inder wants to make the planning department popular
51:18|The new president of the Development & Planning Authority, Deputy Neil Inder, joins Matt Fallaize to talk about taking on the role, solving the island’s housing woes, guarding against urban creep, and how he wants to make planning popular.
The Long and the Short of it: IT failures, P&R scrutiny, and Budget bugbears
01:00:15|Former deputies Heidi Soulsby and Michelle Le Clerc are back with another edition of The Long and the Short of it, talking IT failures after this week’s ‘revelations’ in the States, P&R’s scrutiny hearing, and the Budget.£42m down the drain
30:11|Matt Fallaize and James Falla join Tony Curr to reflect on this week’s States meeting, which saw members reject a code of conduct recommendation to suspend Deputy Gavin St Pier - after the P&R vice-president had revealed that tens of millions of pounds of public money appears to have been ‘wasted’ on two failed IT projects.Deputy St Pier on the code of conduct case against him
37:29|In the second of a two-part interview, Gavin St Pier joins Matt Fallaize to talk about the code of conduct recommendation to suspend him from the States, which will go before members next week.Read more on the background to the story here.Deputy Gavin St Pier on balancing the island’s books
38:22|In the first of a two-part podcast, P&R treasury lead Gavin St Pier joins Matt Fallaize to talk about the 2026 Budget and what comes next.Air links latest and States meeting preview
33:25|Matt Fallaize and James Falla join Tony Curr to reflect on a turbulent week for the island’s air links, with British Airways landing in Guernsey as Blue Islands bows out.Plus there’s a look ahead to next week’s States meeting as Deputy Gavin St Pier faces a vote on whether he should be suspended from the Assembly over a code of conduct breach.Shorthand States: Budget review
22:34|Matt Fallaize and James Falla join Tony Curr to review this week’s Budget debate, which saw P&R’s proposals approved - but not without a few dissenting voices.States preview with St Martin’s constable Dave Beausire
46:48|St Martin’s senior constable Dave Beausire joins Tony Curr and Matt Fallaize to preview next week’s Budget debate and talk parish politics ahead of the upcoming parish elections.
The Long and the Short of it: Budget special
49:04|Ahead of States members debating it early next month, former deputies Michelle Le Clerc and Heidi Soulsby dig in to the detail of the 2026 Budget and what it means for the island’s finances.If you’ve got a question for a future episode, get in touch at longshortgsy@gmail.com.