EIR/202500464703 · FOI/EIR · partially withheld
Deer fence subsidies list: EIR release
Information requested
You asked for the following information in relation to deer fence subsidies:
Please can you provide equivalent 2024/25 figures for the attached request?
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
The table below contains data related to Deer Fence and Upgrading Stock to Deer Fence capital items awarded to successful Agri-environment Climate Scheme (AECS) and Forestry Grants Scheme (FGS) applications in the format as previously provided in EIR 202300382134 and 202500448639:
RPID Area 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Total Ayr £ 614,637 415,154 386,360 299,935 328,214 437,739 7,806 2,489,845 Metres 97,036 60,897 54,020 39,776 43,713 58,431 2,380 356,253 Benbecula £ 0 8,316 6,017 0 5,792 0 0 20,125 Metres 0 840 696 0 585 0 0 2,121 Dumfries £ 188,967 359,113 235,703 428,051 326,134 525,470 43,935 2,107,373 Metres 28,910 57,384 31,578 58,217 42,521 69,280 8,008 295,898 Elgin £ 62,126 146,444 124,824 182,524 78,462 156,567 92,986 843,933 Metres 9,123 19,780 15,693 24,764 10,324 22,670 13,157 115,511 Galashiels £ 630,464 754,368 720,169 414,714 696,134 474,463 481,596 4,171,908 Metres 97,315 112,506 100,299 58,047 89,880 64,670 65,731 588,448 Golspie £ 325,548 402,801 449,558 425,198 323,564 948 0 1,927,617 Metres 34,180 40,328 45,440 43,083 33,562 289 0 196,882 Hamilton £ 104,968 237,474 119,519 55,958 204,842 328,777 52,424 1,103,962 Metres 15,716 36,954 16,479 7,522 27,481 43,480 7,414 155,046 Inverness £ 904,513 839,580 992,205 891,975 667,362 412,403 195,124 4,903,162 Metres 100,904 92,006 100,621 92,115 63,542 55,733 23,946 528,867 Inverurie £ 182,467 331,277 310,764 353,483 440,649 248,500 201,786 2,068,926 Metres 26,833 48,211 41,037 46,472 56,057 33,243 26,975 278,828 Oban £ 682,238 1,011,580 738,971 622,963 254,578 61,923 191,375 3,563,628 Metres 74,267 103,502 78,744 66,299 26,244 8,655 11,826 369,537 Perth £ 1,253,009 872,686 991,483 844,829 655,556 727,086 43,689 5,388,338 Metres 169,277 115,908 125,759 108,656 83,640 96,014 7,347 706,601 Portree £ 67,283 16,533 115,431 54,794 0 1,214 4707 259,962 Metres 6,930 1,670 11,660 5,635 0 370 1435 27,700 Stornoway £ 13,365 20,018 4,019 0 0 0 0 37,402 Metres 1,350 2,022 406 0 0 0 0 3,778 Thurso £ 59,976 13,761 283,362 9,406 130,666 2,856 0 500,027 Metres 6,831 1,390 26,636 950 13,351 336 0 49,494 Total £ 5,089,562 5,429,105 5,478,386 4,583,828 4,111,954 3,377,944 1,315,426 29,386,205 Metres 668,672 693,398 649,068 551,536 490,900 453,172 168,217 3,674,963
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.
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