Francis Le Gresley

Francis du Heaume Le Gresley, MBE is a member of the States of Jersey since he was first elected in the Jersey by-election of 2010.[2] Prior to his political career he was the manager of the Citizens Advice Bureau in Jersey.[3]

Francis du Heaume Le Gresley

MBE
Francis Le Gresley in 2011.
Senator
Assumed office
2011
ConstituencyJersey
Majority14,981 (68.5%)[1]
Senator
In office
2010–2011
ConstituencyJersey
Majority5,798

He is Minister for Social Security.[4]

Political career

Le Gresley first stood for election in June 2010, in a by-election for one seat, against eight other candidates including former-Senator Stuart Syvret, and Deputy Geoff Southern. Le Gresley topped the poll with 5,798 votes. The following year he held on to his seat, in the Jersey general election of 2011.

Pharmacies

In April 2013, Le Gresley announce a change in the fees paid to local pharmacies by Jersey's Health Insurance Fund. A higher rate of £3.40 would be paid on the first 50,000 items dispensed in a year, starting on 1 May 2013. He said this would help smaller pharmacies become "more viable".[5] The estimated additional cost would be around £600,000.

gollark: Oh, and it's not a special case as much as just annoying, but it's a compile error to not use a variable or import. Which I would find reasonable as a linter rule, but it makes quickly editing and testing bits of code more annoying.
gollark: As well as having special casing for stuff, it often is just pointlessly hostile to abstracting anything:- lol no generics- you literally cannot define a well-typed `min`/`max` function (like Lua has). Unless you do something weird like... implement an interface for that on all the builtin number types, and I don't know if it would let you do that.- no map/filter/reduce stuff- `if err != nil { return err }`- the recommended way to map over an array in parallel, if I remember right, is to run a goroutine for every element which does whatever task you want then adds the result to a shared "output" array, and use a WaitGroup thingy to wait for all the goroutines. This is a lot of boilerplate.
gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?

See also
  • Council of Ministers of Jersey

References
  1. "Jersey election 2011: Candidates and Results". BBC News. 2011-10-17.
  2. "BBC - Francis Le Gresley wins election". BBC News. 2010-06-06. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  3. "Change bankruptcy laws to help debtors, says CAB « This Is Jersey". Thisisjersey.com. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  4. "Ministers". Statesassembly.gov.je. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  5. "BBC News - Fee rise intended to help smaller Jersey pharmacies". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
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