Agriculture Bill: consultation analysis

Appendix 3: Frequency analysis of closed questions

Section A: Future Payment Framework

Table 1: Do you agree with the proposal set out in the consultation paper, in relation to the Agriculture Bill including a mechanism to enable payments to be made under a 4-tiered approach?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	80	43	27	150
Organisation	82	16	14	112
Total	162	59	41	262
Total (%)	62%	23%	16%	100%

Table 2: Do you agree that Tier 1 should be a ‘Base Level Direct Payment’ to support farmers and crofters engaged in food production and land management?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	116	18	16	150
Organisation	76	24	11	111
Total	192	42	27	261
Total (%)	74%	16%	10%	100%

Table 3: Do you agree that Tier 2 should be an ‘Enhanced Level Direct Payment’ to deliver outcomes relating to efficiencies, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and nature restoration and enhancement?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	89	33	28	150
Organisation	76	16	16	108
Total	165	49	44	258
Total (%)	64%	19%	17%	100%

Table 4: Do you agree that Tier 3 should be an Elective Payment to focus on targeted measures for nature restoration, innovation support and supply chain support?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	85	29	32	146
Organisation	76	9	22	107
Total	161	38	54	253
Total (%)	64%	15%	21%	100%

Table 5: Do you agree that Tier 4 should be complementary support as the proposal outlines above?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	73	33	40	146
Organisation	68	15	22	105
Total	141	48	62	251
Total (%)	56%	19%	25%	100%

Table 6: Do you agree that a ‘Whole Farm Plan’ should be used as eligibility criteria for the ‘Base Level Direct Payment’ in addition to Cross Compliance Regulations and Greening measures?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	61	61	26	148
Organisation	65	23	19	107
Total	126	84	45	255
Total (%)	49%	33%	18%	100%

Table 7: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to help ensure a Just Transition?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	96	21	31	148
Organisation	90	4	14	108
Total	186	25	45	256
Total (%)	73%	10%	18%	100%

Table 8: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include mechanisms to enable the payment framework to be adaptable and flexible over time depending on emerging best practice, improvements in technology and scientific evidence on climate impacts?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	127	8	16	151
Organisation	92	5	8	105
Total	219	13	24	256
Total (%)	86%	5%	9%	100%

Table 9: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include mechanisms to enable payments to support the agricultural industry when there are exceptional or unforeseen conditions or a major crises affecting agricultural production or distribution?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	128	6	17	151
Organisation	96	1	8	105
Total	224	7	25	256
Total (%)	88%	3%	10%	100%

Section B: Delivery of Key Outcomes

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Table 10: Do you agree with the proposal set out above, in relation to the new Agriculture Bill including measures to allow future payments to support climate change mitigation objectives?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	100	28	21	149
Organisation	96	5	6	107
Total	196	33	27	256
Total (%)	77%	13%	11%	100%

Table 11: Do you agree with the proposal set out above, in relation to the new Agriculture Bill including measures to allow future payments to support climate change adaptation objectives?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	94	22	26	142
Organisation	92	3	9	104
Total	186	25	35	246
Total (%)	76%	10%	14%	100%

Table 12: Do you agree with the proposal set out above, in relation to the new Agriculture Bill including a mechanism to enable payments to be made that are conditional on outcomes that support climate mitigation and adaptation measures, along with targeted elective payments?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	77	30	36	143
Organisation	84	7	11	102
Total	161	37	47	245
Total (%)	66%	15%	19%	100%

Table 13: Do you agree with the proposal set out above, in relation to the new Agriculture Bill including measures that support integrated land management, such as peatland and woodland outcomes on farms and crofts, in recognition of the environmental, economic and social benefits that it can bring?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	93	30	23	146
Organisation	90	9	9	108
Total	183	39	32	254
Total (%)	72%	15%	13%	100%

Nature Protection and Restoration

Table 14: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to protect and restore biodiversity, support clean and healthy air, water and soils, contribute to reducing flood risk locally and downstream and create thriving, resilient nature?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	118	16	9	143
Organisation	102	8	3	113
Total	220	24	12	256
Total (%)	86%	9%	5%	100%

Table 15: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to enable payments that are conditional on outcomes that support nature maintenance and restoration, along with targeted elective payments?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
Individual	107	17	18	142
Organisation	94	3	13	110
Total	201	20	31	252
Total (%)	80%	8%	12%	100%

Table 16: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to enable landscape/catchment scale payments to support nature maintenance and restoration?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	85	22	37	144
Organisation	92	4	14	110
Total	177	26	51	254
Total (%)	70%	10%	20%	100%

High Quality Food Production

Table 17: Do you agree that the powers in the Agriculture and Retained EU Law and Data (Scotland) Act 2020 should be extended to ensure Scottish Ministers have flexibility to better respond to current, post exit, circumstances in common market organisation and easily make changes to rules on food?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	100	14	27	141
Organisation	60	5	22	87
Total	160	19	49	228
Total (%)	70%	8%	21%	100%

Table 18: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have powers to begin, conclude, or modify schemes or other support relevant to the agricultural markets?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	99	18	25	142
Organisation	59	4	23	86
Total	158	22	48	228
Total (%)	69%	10%	21%	100%

Table 19: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to enable payments that support high quality food production?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	121	10	15	146
Organisation	67	4	22	93
Total	188	14	37	239
Total (%)	79%	6%	15%	100%

Table 20: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include a mechanism to provide grants to support industry in the agri-food supply chain to encourage sustainability, efficiency, co-operation, industry development, education, processing and marketing in the agri-food sector?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	114	13	20	147
Organisation	73	5	12	90
Total	187	18	32	237
Total (%)	79%	8%	14%	100%

Table 21: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include powers for Scottish Ministers to declare when there are exceptional or unforeseen conditions affecting food production or distribution?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	116	10	18	144
Organisation	63	5	17	85
Total	179	15	35	229
Total (%)	78%	7%	15%	100%

Table 22: Do you believe the new Agriculture Bill should include powers for Scottish Ministers to provide financial assistance to the agri-food sector and related bodies whose incomes are being, or are likely to be, adversely affected by the exceptional or unforeseen conditions described in the declaration referred to above?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	105	11	28	144
Organisation	57	6	20	83
Total	162	17	48	227
Total (%)	71%	7%	21%	100%

Table 23: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include the powers to process and share information with the agri-food sector and supply chains to enable them to improve business efficiency?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	94	21	27	142
Organisation	60	5	23	88
Total	154	26	50	230
Total (%)	67%	11%	22%	100%

Wider Rural Development

Table 24: Do you agree that the proposals outlined above should be included in the new Agriculture Bill?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	94	32	17	143
Organisation	91	11	9	111
Total	185	43	26	254
Total (%)	73%	17%	10%	100%

Table 25: Are there other areas relating to non-agricultural land management such as forestry that you would like considered for support under the Agriculture Bill to help deliver integrated land management and the products produced from it?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	60	59	22	141
Organisation	67	15	20	102
Total	127	74	42	243
Total (%)	52%	30%	17%	100%

Animal Health and Welfare

Table 26: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include powers to establish minimum standards for animal health, welfare as a condition of receiving payments?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	101	27	10	138
Organisation	61	12	9	82
Total	162	39	19	220
Total (%)	74%	18%	9%	100%

Table 27: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include powers to make payments to support improvements in animal health, welfare and biosecurity beyond legal minimum standards?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	98	22	15	135
Organisation	65	6	12	83
Total	163	28	27	218
Total (%)	75%	13%	12%	100%

Table 28: Do you agree that the new Agriculture Bill should include powers to collect and share livestock health, welfare and biosecurity data?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	85	21	30	136
Organisation	62	4	15	81
Total	147	25	45	217
Total (%)	68%	12%	21%	100%

Plant Genetic Resources and Plant Health

Table 29: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have powers to provide support for the conservation of Plant Genetic Resources, including plants developed and grown for agricultural, horticultural or forestry purposes and their wild relatives?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	121	5	17	143
Organisation	70	2	11	83
Total	191	7	28	226
Total (%)	85%	3%	12%	100%

Table 30: Do you agree that Scottish Minister should have the power to provide support to protect and improve plant health?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	115	5	20	140
Organisation	64	3	13	80
Total	179	8	33	220
Total (%)	81%	4%	15%	100%

Section C: Skills, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

Table 31: Do you agree that support should continue to be provided in this area?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	118	7	9	134
Organisation	103	1	3	107
Total	221	8	12	241
Total (%)	92%	3%	5%	100%

Table 32: Is there any particular gaps in delivery that you can identify?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	70	13	43	126
Organisation	83	3	17	103
Total	153	16	60	229
Total (%)	67%	7%	26%	100%

Table 33: Are there any alternative approaches that might deliver better results?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	54	4	67	125
Organisation	58	0	28	86
Total	112	4	95	211
Total (%)	53%	2%	45%	100%

Table 34: Do you have any ideas as to how engagement/participation in advisory services, knowledge transfer or skills development might be improved?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	76	8	42	126
Organisation	74	1	18	93
Total	150	9	60	219
Total (%)	68%	4%	27%	100%

Table 35: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to establish a national reserve and regional reserve if/when required to ensure the equal treatment of farmers and to avoid distortions of the market and of the competition?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	43	9	27	79
Organisation	40	5	25	70
Total	83	14	52	149
Total (%)	56%	9%	35%	100%

Section D: Administration, Control, and Transparency of Payment Framework Data

Table 36: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that provides for an integrated database, to collect information in relation to applications, declarations and commitments made by beneficiaries of rural support?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	89	11	18	118
Organisation	77	3	6	86
Total	166	14	24	204
Total (%)	81%	7%	12%	100%

Table 37: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that collects and shares information for the purposes of carrying out management, control, audit and monitoring and evaluation obligations and for statistical purposes, subject to General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) requirements?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	85	12	19	116
Organisation	73	4	8	85
Total	158	16	27	201
Total (%)	79%	8%	13%	100%

Table 38: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to share information where there is a public interest in doing so, and subject to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	72	24	20	116
Organisation	60	12	12	84
Total	132	36	32	200
Total (%)	66%	18%	16%	100%

Table 39: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that provides a mechanism that aligns with the principles of the Scottish Public Finance Manual?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	79	9	27	115
Organisation	66	3	14	83
Total	145	12	41	198
Total (%)	73%	6%	21%	100%

Table 40: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that provides the data required to undertake administrative checks on applications / claims made by beneficiaries for rural support?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	95	9	13	117
Organisation	70	4	9	83
Total	165	13	22	200
Total (%)	83%	7%	11%	100%

Table 41: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system whereby on-the-spot-checks should be undertaken to further verify applications / claims made by beneficiaries for rural support?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	68	28	21	117
Organisation	67	7	11	85
Total	135	35	32	202
Total (%)	67%	17%	16%	100%

Table 42: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that would provide for cross compliance, conditionality that covers core standards in relation to sustainable environment, climate, Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition ( GAEC), land, public and animal health, plant health and animal welfare, Soil health, carbon capture and maintenance?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	72	18	25	115
Organisation	72	6	9	87
Total	144	24	34	202
Total (%)	71%	12%	17%	100%

Table 43: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to create a system that provides a mechanism to support the delivery of practices aligned to receipt of elective payments, for targeted outcomes?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	86	12	18	116
Organisation	72	2	10	84
Total	158	14	28	200
Total (%)	79%	7%	14%	100%

Table 44: Do you believe that Scottish Ministers should have the power to monitor and evaluate outcomes to ensure they meet the agreed purpose and help better inform future policy?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	96	11	10	117
Organisation	80	0	5	85
Total	176	11	15	202
Total (%)	87%	5%	7%	100%

Table 45: Do you believe that Scottish Ministers should have the power to seek independent assurance that outcomes are delivered appropriately?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	75	12	29	116
Organisation	58	7	17	82
Total	133	19	46	198
Total (%)	67%	10%	23%	100%

Table 46: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have the power to enable the publication of details pertaining to recipients who receive payments including under the future payment model (outlined above) and set a level above which payment details will be published?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	57	30	30	117
Organisation	53	11	13	77
Total	110	41	43	194
Total (%)	57%	21%	22%	100%

Table 47: Do you agree that technical fixes should be made to the Agriculture and Retained EU Law and Data (Scotland) Act 2020 to ensure Scottish Ministers have all requisite powers to allow CAP legacy schemes and retained EU law to continue to operate and be monitored and regulated and also to ensure Scottish Ministers have flexibility to better respond to current, post exit, circumstances?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	72	15	29	116
Organisation	55	6	19	80
Total	127	21	48	196
Total (%)	65%	11%	24%	100%

Section E: Modernisation of Agricultural Tenancies – Agreement to Diversification

Agreement to diversification

Table 48: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have a power to be able to determine what is an acceptable diversification?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	64	40	24	128
Organisation	37	18	21	76
Total	101	58	45	204
Total (%)	50%	28%	22%	100%

Table 49: Do you think that if this power is given to Scottish Ministers that the Tenant Farming Commissioner should have the ability to issue guidance to assist tenant farmers and landlords understand this?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	82	27	19	128
Organisation	52	4	19	75
Total	134	31	38	203
Total (%)	66%	15%	19%	100%

Waygo and Schedule 5 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991

Table 50: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should add new activities and items onto Schedule 5 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991; to enable tenant farmers to support biodiversity and undertake climate change mitigation and adaption activity on their tenant farms?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	61	24	30	115
Organisation	37	10	23	70
Total	98	34	53	185
Total (%)	53%	18%	29%	100%

Table 51: Do you agree that Scottish Ministers should have a power to amend Schedule 5 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 by secondary legislation to enable Schedule 5 to be changed to meet the future challenges?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	56	28	30	114
Organisation	28	15	23	66
Total	84	43	53	180
Total (%)	47%	24%	29%	100%

Table 52: Do you agree that when an agricultural tenancy comes to an end a tenant farmer should have certainty about the timescale by when they will receive any money due to them, and their landlord should also have a similar certainty?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	93	6	17	116
Organisation	43	0	20	63
Total	136	6	37	179
Total (%)	76%	3%	21%	100%

Amendments to rules of good husbandry and good estate management

Table 53: Do you agree that the Scottish Ministers should be able to amend the rules of good husbandry and good estate management defined in the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1948 to enable tenant farmers and their landlords to be able to meet future global challenges?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	82	17	23	122
Organisation	50	4	17	71
Total	132	21	40	193
Total (%)	68%	11%	21%	100%

Rent Reviews

Table 54: Do you agree that adaptability and negotiation in rent calculations are required to meet the global challenges of the future? Please explain why

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	61	8	41	110
Organisation	35	1	26	62
Total	96	9	67	172
Total (%)	56%	5%	39%	100%

Table 55: Are there any other relevant considerations that should be included in part of a rent review? Please explain why including any practical examples.

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	33	6	68	107
Organisation	20	4	34	58
Total	53	10	102	165
Total (%)	32%	6%	62%	100%

Resumption

Table 56: Do you consider that Scottish Ministers should amend the resumption provisions on compensation for disturbance to include a new valuation formula? And if you agree, with this proposal, what do you consider to be the appropriate method of valuation?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	33	22	49	104
Organisation	9	11	37	57
Total	42	33	86	161
Total (%)	26%	20%	53%	100%

Section F: Scottish Agricultural Wages (Fair Work)

Table 57: Do you agree that Fair Work conditions, including the real Living Wage, should be applied to all Scottish agricultural workers?

Respondent type	Yes	No	Don’t Know	Total
Individual	86	13	22	121
Organisation	44	6	21	71
Total	130	19	43	192
Total (%)	68%	10%	22%	100%