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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