Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-11275

Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: 30 September 2022
Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 October 2022

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10496 by Tom Arthur on 20 September 2022, what information it holds on whether transfers of land over 2,000 hectares not involving a payment include transfers into Trusts, and how many such transfers occurred in each of the last 10 years.

Answer

This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland. She advises me that transfers of interest relating to properties over 2000 hectares were counted where:

at least one applicant in the application for registration was designated as acting in the capacity of trustee
the transfer of interest is not classified as a full market sale according to the Registers of Scotland property market report methodology

Year	Transfers
2012	1
2013	1
2014	0
2015	5
2016	3
2017	5
2018	10
2019	5
2020	3
2021	1
2022	1

Figures were current on 05 October 2022.

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