FOI/202300382134 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Funds awarded for installation of deer fences from 2018 to 2023: EIR release
Information requested
Data on the amount of money awarded for the installation of deer fences from 2018/19 to 2022/23 as well as the total length of deer fencing. You also requested that this data be provided in a map / spatial data.
Response
This data is not available in a digitised map format, nor do we hold this data spatially. We have, however, provided this data in a tabular format including the Rural Payments and Inspections Division (RPID) Office geographic area associated with this data.
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:
RPID Area 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 Total Ayr £ 614,637 415,154 386,360 299,935 328,214 2,044,300 Metres 97,036 60,897 54,020 39,776 43,713 295,442 Benbecula £ 0 8,316 6,017 0 5,792 20,124 Metres 0 840 696 0 585 2,121 Dumfries £ 188,967 359,113 235,703 428,051 326,134 1,537,969 Metres 28,910 57,384 31,578 58,217 42,521 218,611 Elgin £ 62,126 146,444 124,824 182,524 78,462 594,381 Metres 9,123 19,780 15,693 24,764 10,324 79,684 Galashiels £ 630,464 754,368 720,169 414,714 696,134 3,215,851 Metres 97,315 112,506 100,299 58,047 89,880 458,047 Golspie £ 325,548 402,801 449,558 425,198 323,564 1,926,669 Metres 34,180 40,328 45,440 43,083 33,562 196,593 Hamilton £ 104,968 237,474 119,519 55,958 204,842 722,761 Metres 15,716 36,954 16,479 7,522 27,481 104,152 Inverness £ 904,513 839,580 992,205 891,975 667,362 4,295,635 Metres 100,904 92,006 100,621 92,115 63,542 449,188 Inverurie £ 182,467 331,277 310,764 353,483 440,649 1,618,639 Metres 26,833 48,211 41,037 46,472 56,057 218,610 Oban £ 682,238 1,011,580 738,971 622,963 254,578 3,310,329 Metres 74,267 103,502 78,744 66,299 26,244 349,056 Perth £ 1,253,009 872,686 991,483 844,829 655,556 4,617,563 Metres 169,277 115,908 125,759 108,656 83,640 603,239 Portree £ 67,283 16,533 115,431 54,794 0 254,041 Metres 6,930 1,670 11,660 5,635 0 25,895 Stornoway £ 13,365 20,018 4,019 0 0 37,402 Metres 1,350 2,022 406 0 0 3,778 Thurso £ 59,976 13,761 283,362 9,406 130,666 497,169 Metres 6,831 1,390 26,636 950 13,351 49,158 Total £ 5,089,562 5,429,105 5,478,386 4,583,828 4,111,954 24,692,834 Metres 668,672 693,398 649,068 551,536 490,900 3,053,574
You also requested the amount of money awarded for the installation of plastic fence materials as well as the total length of plastic fencing over the last five years.
We do not have a specific plastic fence capital item available within the Agri-environment Climate Scheme (AECS) or the Forestry Grants Scheme (FGS). It may be possible that plastic materials could be used for both the enhancing / modifying a deer and stock fence capital items, however other fence marking materials are permissible including bamboo, wood, metal and heather. As we do not collate specific information on the type of materials used for fence marking we are not able to provide data on this particular request.
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