Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: consultation analysis report

Footnotes

1 Scottish Government. (2025). Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Consultation [online] Available at: Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Consultation (accessed 22/09/2025).

2 Scottish Government. (2025) Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment. [online] Available at: Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (accessed: 25/09/2025).

3 Scottish Government. (2020) Offshore Wind Policy Statement. Available at: Offshore Wind Policy Statement (accessed 22/09/2025)

4 Energy Act (2023). Available at: Energy Act 2023 (accessed 22/10/2025)

5 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (2025) Consultation for the establishment of the Marine Recovery Fund [online] Available at: Consultation for the establishment of the Marine Recovery Fund (accessed: 22/09/2025)

6 Scottish Government. (2025). Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Interim Guidance. [online] Available at: Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Interim Guidance – gov.scot (accessed 22/09/2025)

7 Energy Act (2023). Available at: Energy Act 2023 (accessed 22/10/2025)

8 UK Government. (2017) The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 [online] Available at: The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (accessed 22/09/2025).

9 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (2025) Offshore wind: environmental compensatory measures reforms [online] Available at: Offshore wind: environmental compensatory measures reforms (accessed: 22/09/2025)

10 Scottish Government. (2025). Offshore wind - strategic compensation policy: consultation [online] Available at: Offshore wind - strategic compensation policy: consultation (accessed 22/09/2025)

11 Scottish Government. (2025) Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Consultation. [online] Available at: Scottish Marine Recovery Fund: Consultation (accessed 22/09/2025)

12 Scottish waters include the Scottish inshore region (between 0 and 12 nautical miles (nm)) under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, and in the Scottish offshore region (beyond 12nm) under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.

13 Scottish Government (2018) Islands (Scotland) Act 2018. Available at: Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (accessed 22/10/2025).

14 United Kingdom Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy (2024) Introduction to UK Marine Strategy. Available at: Introduction to UK Marine Strategy - Marine online assessment tool. (accessed 22/10/2025).

15 The UK Government consulted on proposals for a UK-wide Public Compensation Register. The Scottish Government supports collaboration on a UK-wide register rather than the establishment of a Scottish-specific register. The Public Compensation Register aims to track the impacts of proposed compensation being delivered across the UK on the projected site network. This would help inform decision-making on the choice of measures to be taken forward as strategic compensation, as well as help to identify areas of synergies for delivery of measures and any possible cost savings.

16 Scottish Government. (2025). Marine licensing and consenting: offshore renewable energy projects. [online] Available at: Marine Licensing and Consenting Offshore Renewable Energy Projects (accessed 22/09/2025)

17 The updated SMP-OWE sets out an integrated planning framework for both the ScotWind and Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing rounds alongside consideration of additional capacity for test and demonstration (T&D) projects. It integrates these elements into one planning document that: updates the planning baseline from the 2020 SMP-OWE to take account of the level of ambition for offshore wind development in Scottish waters arising from the ScotWind leasing round; Continues the planning process for INTOG, building on the INTOG Initial Planning Framework (IPF) (2022); and Considers additional capacity for the development of T&D offshore wind projects, in recognition of potential future need for further testing of technology.

18 Scottish Government. (2015). Scotland's National Marine Plan. [online] available at: Scotland’s National Marine Plan (accessed 15/10/2025)

19 Scottish Government. (2025). Draft Updated Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy 2025. [online] Available at: Draft Updated Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy (accessed 22/10/2025).

20 Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. (2025). Offshore wind development: library of strategic compensatory measures. [online] Available at: Offshore wind development: library of strategic compensatory measures. (accessed 22/10/2025)

21 Scottish Government. (2022). Marine Litter Strategy for Scotland. [online] Available at: Marine Litter Strategy Scotland (accessed 15/10/2025)

22 Scottish Government. (2023). National Litter and Flytipping Strategy. [online] Available at: National Litter and Flytipping Strategy (accessed 15/10/2025)