Subsidies and compliance at More Works Holdings/Loch Choire Estate: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
1. Please provide details of any subsidies provided to More Works Holdings/Loch Choire Estate over the last decade.
2. Please also detail any inspections surrounding the use of subsidies at this estate, and whether any breaches were found.
Response
1. The payment details of any subsidies provided to the business of More Works Holdings/Loch Choire Estate is published annually. The last two years publications can be found from the following link below to the Co-Body CAP Beneficiary website and either download the data in a spreadsheet format or use the search function for the business name of More Works Holdings on the website.
The UK Government Archive holds the payment information for years previous to this and can be accessed from the link below. The data is held in spreadsheets which can be downloaded with the Scottish Government's data held on a tab within the spreadsheet. The business of More Works Holdings can be searched from there.
Archive Timeline - UK Government Web Archive
I have attached a single spreadsheet to this response which contains the previously published data from the above resource.
Subsidy payments made for the period 16 October 2024 to 15 October 2025 is due to be published by 30 June 2026. The details for this business are as follows:
Year 2025
|
Measure Description |
Payment |
|
Investment in forest area development and viability - UKfunded |
£42,919.38 |
|
Basic payment scheme - UK funded |
£20,548.54 |
|
Greening - UK payments - UK funded |
£9,390.57 |
|
Total |
£72,858.49 |
2. In 2017 the business was subject to a land based inspection. Basic Payment Scheme, Greening Scheme and Cross Compliance requirements were included.
Following completion of Forestry Grant Scheme capital works, claims were inspected 28 July 2022, 16 February 2023 and 26 October 2023.
There were no breaches recorded.
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