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Candidates generally support delivering a new hospital, enhancing primary care accessibility, investing in mental health services, and improving staff pay, recruitment, retention, and training. Many prioritize ending delays in hospital construction while advocating for cost controls, preventative measures, free or affordable access to services like GP visits and prescriptions, and opposition to new charges. Differences emerge on hospital specifics, including site selection like Overdale, single versus two-site models, project pauses or reviews, independent oversight, and debt management. Most candidates support building a new hospital and improving access to primary care and mental health services. Candidates disagree on the new hospital's site, model (single-site versus two-site), costs, timelines, and need for pauses, reviews, or alternatives.

Candidates generally support improvements to education infrastructure such as new schools in St Helier and Les Quennevais, increased funding, vocational training, apprenticeships, and upskilling locals. Many advocate for enhancements in childcare, special needs support, lifelong learning, and specific programs like arts access, PE restoration, and digital literacy. Differences emerge in priorities, with some emphasizing systemic overhauls and school autonomy, others focusing on new university campuses, nursery funding, or critiques of early screen learning. Most candidates support increased funding for education, development of skills training and apprenticeships, and improvements to school infrastructure. Candidates diverge in specific focuses, such as new school builds in particular parishes versus curriculum reforms, special needs support, or vocational versus higher education initiatives.

Candidates predominantly advocate for greater efficiency, reduced waste, and controlled public spending in public services, with frequent calls for transparency, ombudsman oversight, and protecting essential frontline services. Many emphasize improvements to parish and community services, such as youth work, infrastructure upgrades, and volunteer efforts. Differences emerge in approaches to public sector size, with some proposing staff reductions and pay freezes while others prioritize resource enhancements for areas like social security, children's services, and communication. A majority of candidates support reducing wasteful spending, enhancing transparency and accountability, and maintaining essential public services. Candidates diverge on public sector scale, with several proposing reductions through attrition, cuts, or freezes contrasted by calls for a well-resourced sector and expanded support in social security or children's services.

Candidates predominantly support increasing affordable housing supply through measures such as developing brownfield and States-owned sites, subsidies, shared equity schemes, and assistance for first-time buyers including stamp duty reforms. Many emphasize prioritizing locals, parishioners, and parish connections, alongside regulating rentals, penalizing empty homes, and specific parish projects. Differences emerge on development scale and location, with some opposing greenfield sites, large-scale, or high-rise projects to protect rural areas and green spaces. Most candidates support expanding affordable housing supply and aiding first-time buyers via targeted schemes and reforms. Candidates disagree on protecting greenfield sites and avoiding large-scale or high-rise developments, with some prioritizing rural preservation and others advocating States site utilization including taller buildings.

Candidates generally support economic growth through diversification beyond finance into sectors like tourism, agriculture, fishing, dairy, and digital industries, alongside reducing bureaucracy and aiding small and local businesses. Many emphasize inward investment, job creation, and initiatives such as tourism boards or skills audits. Differences arise in specific priorities, with some focusing on protecting the finance industry and others on social measures like raising the minimum wage or prioritizing locals. Most candidates advocate for economic diversification, support for tourism and local businesses, and reducing red tape or bureaucracy. Candidates differ in emphasis, with some prioritizing defense of the finance sector and others focusing on traditional industries, social policies like minimum wage increases, or measures to prioritize locals over immigrants.

Candidates overwhelmingly support protecting green spaces, countryside, coastlines, and beaches from development, with many also advocating for renewable energy sources such as solar panels, wave power, and hydrogen. Several commit to carbon reduction strategies, environmental plans, recycling improvements, and sustainable practices including support for farming and marine protection. Reform Jersey candidates emphasize specific local initiatives like the Marine Park and Shoreline Management Plan, while others focus on island-wide climate actions and green technologies. Most candidates support protecting green spaces and countryside from development and promoting renewable energy and sustainable environmental measures.

Candidates universally identify the high cost of living as a key issue and propose measures to address it, including wage increases, tax relief, promoting competition, deregulation, and targeted support for vulnerable groups. Reform Jersey candidates emphasize mandatory living wages, minimum wage increases, and improved parental leave to counter stagnating wages and inflation. Independent candidates advocate a broader range of solutions such as removing GST from food, reducing regulatory costs, energy-efficient standards, and benefit enhancements. All candidates recognize the high cost of living, including rising food, energy, housing, and essentials prices, as a primary concern requiring action to restore affordability. Candidates differ in approach, with Reform Jersey focusing on wage hikes and parental leave, while Independents emphasize competition, deregulation, specific tax cuts like GST on food, and targeted benefits.

Candidates predominantly propose reducing tax burdens on lower and middle-income earners through measures like raising tax thresholds, lowering personal taxes, freezing increases, and removing GST from food and essentials. Many commit to maintaining low parish rates, opposing stealth taxes, and preserving Jersey's low-tax economy. Differences emerge in reform approaches, with some advocating progressive taxation on high earners, wealthy individuals, large firms, or non-local businesses, while others emphasize simplification, single rates, or broad cuts without such increases. Most candidates support alleviating tax pressures on lower and middle incomes via threshold increases, rate reductions, or GST exemptions on essentials. Key disagreement lies between proposals for progressive taxation targeting high earners, the super-rich, or large firms and those favoring flat reductions, simplifications, or overall burden cuts without specified increases elsewhere.

Candidates generally support improvements to road safety, parking, bus services, pedestrian routes, and cycle paths. Several propose enhancements to air and sea links, including ferry services, harbour integration, and airport development. They differ in specific focuses, such as ending the Condor monopoly, expanding bus networks, or reviewing speed limits. A majority of candidates support measures to enhance road safety, parking solutions, and bus services. Candidates diverge in emphasis between local infrastructure like cycle paths and pedestrian safety versus inter-island connectivity such as ferries and airports.

Most candidates support controlling immigration through mechanisms such as work permits, ID cards, vetting, and population policies to manage population levels and address pressures on infrastructure, housing, and services. While many emphasize stabilizing or reducing population growth, others advocate for targeted immigration to meet skills shortages, economic needs, and labour market demands. Reform Jersey candidates frequently call for caps, stricter controls, or prioritizing local talent over external hires. Most candidates support implementing controls like work permits, population policies, and monitoring to manage immigration and stabilize population levels. Candidates differ on the degree of openness, with some supporting welcoming overseas workers or targeted permits for economic and skills needs, while others strongly oppose increases, favor caps, or prioritize reducing immigration to protect infrastructure and quality of life.