Hi! My Name is Aidan Matthews
Standing for the 2025 election
Housing
We need a new housing commission using local construction industry know-how to help deliver more homes and suggest improvements to States policies
Population
The new Housing Committee should take responsibility to manage migration, and aim for better balance with house building. The rule should be licences are limited relative to new builds
Education
All schools should be able to create their own identity, not merge toward one standard. Parental choice and competition drive up individual school standards
Healthcare
The first phase of the PEH modernisation has been progressed, now the next phase is needed to provide for increases which come with an ageing population.
Current Deputy
more about Me
I am proudly standing as an independent, with my own ideas. I am 50 years old and have lived in Guernsey most of my life, building a 27-year career as a software developer. My partner Natasha and I live in St Martin’s with our 9-year-old son Ted. After being elected, I decided to work for you full-time as a States member, in order to concentrate on the issues that really matter to islanders. Having worked in technology within banking, fund administration, the public sector and insurance, and earned my business degree locally with the GTA, I have a broad view of industry in Guernsey. I am used to finding novel and creative solutions to complex and difficult problems.
Current Deputy
Elected in 2020 I have played a full role on two principal committees:
Health and Social Care (HSC) and Environment and Infrastructure (E&I)
Additionally I have served as: Member of the Legislation Review Panel; Douzaine Liaison Group as Vice President; HSC representative for the Children and Young People’s Board and the Corporate Parenting Board; Political representative for the Alderney Care Board; Electronic Patient Records project board member and Personal Insolvency Law Review member.
Here are three amendments I proposed which have passed:
Modular Homes
Enable the use of modular homes as emergency accommodation, alongside future construction worker village development. We must do everything we can
School Fines
Preventing fixed penalties from being introduced for parents when children are absent from school. These fines have no place here, parents need help not penalties. This idea was copied from the UK where they have been a failure, and only led to parents feeling more victimised by authorities
Mortgage Tax Relief
Kept mortgage income tax relief, rather than phasing it out. Homeowners are under pressure from high interest rates, some mortgage holders rely on this tax relief
Greater Trust
We need more accountability. Finding out what the States is doing on your behalf is of vital importance in a functioning democracy.
I support a Freedom of Information Law to bring full transparency. It’s our information, it should always be made available to those with a legitimate interest
I will back a return of the Public Accounts Committee, or a new Audit Commission, will help build trust in how the States spends money on your behalf, with outside eyes to review the details of work being done
“I will press for a ‘duty of candour’ for all public employees. Backed by law to prevent the withholding of important information from those who need to know, something that unfortunately does occur in the States. The UK government is progressing this, to help combat high profile scandals where information was not passed on to those who could act on it”
– Aidan Matthews –
Vote for Aidan Matthews in 2025
Vote by post or in person on 18 June 2025