The Committee agreed to seek views on whether the changes made following the report to recommendations of the Grouse Moor Management Review Group in their the Scottish Government published in November 2019 have led to more robust and trustworthy data on disappeared or dead birds of prey as well as more effective sharing of this data. , the Scottish Government stated that In its response to the review in November 2020 “despite clear and repeated messages from Scottish Ministers that such activity is entirely unacceptable, raptor persecution continues to be a significant and ongoing issue in Scotland.”