Deer Fence subsidy list: EIR release

Information requested

A list of deer fence subsidies for 2023/24 in the format of the attached document.

It was provided to me in a past FOI but I'm afraid I can't find the original response.

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:

RPID  Area		2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	Total
Ayr	£	614,637	415,154	386,360	299,935	328,214	437,739	2,482,039
	Metres	97,036	60,897	54,020	39,776	43,713	58,431	353,873
Benbecula	£	0	8,316	6,017	0	5,792	0	20,125
	Metres	0	840	696	0	585	0	2,121
Dumfries	£	188,967	359,113	235,703	428,051	326,134	525,470	2,063,438
	Metres	28,910	57,384	31,578	58,217	42,521	69,280	287,890
Elgin	£	62,126	146,444	124,824	182,524	78,462	156,567	750,947
	Metres	9,123	19,780	15,693	24,764	10,324	22,670	102,354
Galashiels	£	630,464	754,368	720,169	414,714	696,134	474,463	3,690,312
	Metres	97,315	112,506	100,299	58,047	89,880	64,670	522,717
Golspie	£	325,548	402,801	449,558	425,198	323,564	948	1,927,617
	Metres	34,180	40,328	45,440	43,083	33,562	289	196,882
Hamilton	£	104,968	237,474	119,519	55,958	204,842	328,777	1,051,538
	Metres	15,716	36,954	16,479	7,522	27,481	43,480	147,632
Inverness	£	904,513	839,580	992,205	891,975	667,362	412,403	4,708,038
	Metres	100,904	92,006	100,621	92,115	63,542	55,733	504,921
Inverurie	£	182,467	331,277	310,764	353,483	440,649	248,500	1,867,140
	Metres	26,833	48,211	41,037	46,472	56,057	33,243	251,853
Oban	£	682,238	1,011,580	738,971	622,963	254,578	61,923	3,372,253
	Metres	74,267	103,502	78,744	66,299	26,244	8,655	357,711
Perth	£	1,253,009	872,686	991,483	844,829	655,556	727,086	5,344,649
	Metres	169,277	115,908	125,759	108,656	83,640	96,014	699,254
Portree	£	67,283	16,533	115,431	54,794	0	1214	255,255
	Metres	6,930	1,670	11,660	5,635	0	370	26,265
Stornoway	£	13,365	20,018	4,019	0	0	0	37,402
	Metres	1,350	2,022	406	0	0	0	3,778
Thurso	£	59,976	13,761	283,362	9,406	130,666	2,856	500,027
	Metres	6,831	1,390	26,636	950	13,351	336	49,494
Total	£	5,089,562	5,429,105	5,478,386	4,583,828	4,111,954	3,377,944	28,070,779
	Metres	668,672	693,398	649,068	551,536	490,900	453,172	3,506,746

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