Question reference: S6W-14790
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 8 February 2023
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Current status: Answered by Keith Brown on 23 February 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the number of (a) incidents and (b) emergency service callouts there were for mountaineering accidents in each year since 2011.
Answer
Each year, Scottish Government receives a copy of the Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) ‘Annual Review’, which includes the total number of ‘incidents’ and ‘callouts’ involving SMR teams; the collated information from the reports, for each year since 2011, is provided in the following table:-
SMR Incidents | |||||||||||||
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||
Mountaineering | 413 | 381 | 347 | 273 | 331 | 235 | 216 | 239 | 243 | 289 | 345 | ||
Non | 160 | 162 | 239 | 260 | 248 | 201 | 207 | 349 | 259 | 308 | 315 | ||
Total | 573 | 543 | 586 | 533 | 579 | 436 | 423 | 588 | 502 | 597 | 660 | ||
SMR Callouts | |||||||||||||
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||
Mountaineering | < No breakdown available for these years > | 327 | 395 | ||||||||||
Non | 389 | 558 | |||||||||||
Total | 859 | 872 | 884 | 795 | 762 | 823 | 686 | 788 | 733 | 716 | 953 |