Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to bring forward the proposals set out in its Managing deer for climate and nature consultation.
The Scottish Government’s future legislative programme will be set out as part of the upcoming Programme for Government in due course.
In the meantime we are working on those Deer Working Group recommendations that do not require primary legislation through the Strategic Deer Board .
In addition to this, as set out in the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Action: Policy Package , we are developing a package of incentives schemes for deer management to pilot across Scotland. These local schemes will be implemented this year in different parts of Scotland to test different approaches to incentives and to better understand the barriers to deer management.