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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-05308

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 5 December 2016
  • Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 December 2016

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what funding national nature reserves have received in each of the last five years.


Answer

The ownership and management of Scotland's network of National Nature Reserves (NNRs) is shared between a range of public, third sector and private interests and there is no centrally-held record of funding.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is directly involved in the management of 30 of Scotland’s 41 NNRs. Of these, SNH is the sole manager of 24 NNRs and manages 6 in partnership with an None Governmental Organisations (NGO) and/or a public body or private landowner. NGOs and other public bodies manage 11 NNRs.

SNH does not hold information on its expenditure on NNRs but its overall land management expenditure (the majority of which is on NNRs) is provided in the following table.

2013-14

(actual)

2014-15

(actual)

2015-16

(actual)

2016-17 (allocation)

£2,160,620

£1,575,491

£1,556,568

£1,379,236

Approved funding for NNRs from Forestry Commission Scotland forestry grants in each of the last five years is provided in the following table.

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

£92,000

nil

£426,000

£439,000

£40,000