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What this means is that we will be able to support many more organisations that are successful in their applications, through Multi-Year Funding than we had previously anticipated.
Examples include section 41 of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021 (see section 107 for the level of procedure) or paragraph 1 of the schedule of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 among many other similar examples. While the present cases under consideration would result in a change of a name rather than a numb...
Forestry Commission Scotland’s Action for Black Grouse research note found that there are many threats to black grouse including habitat loss and degradation, predation, weather and disease.
Catch limits imposed there have resulted in an Olympic fishery, whereby fishers seek to maximise effort and land as many fish as possible before the overall limit has been reached.
We write to ask that you urgently re-evaluate your policy on the open-net salmon farming industry, in light of the growing body of evidence demonstrating that the industry causes 1 multiple environmental, welfare and sustainability problems ; and one which is widely held to be having a negative impact on many other stakeholders within Scotland.
I must emphasise again theses types of payments exist only so that those farming in areas of constraint are able to receive additional support, that those engaging in support for nature and climate outcomes have their support maintained, and that crofters are helped to keep many of our most fragile communities active.
We write to ask that you urgently re-evaluate your policy on the open-net salmon farming industry, in light of the growing body of evidence demonstrating that the industry causes 1 multiple environmental, welfare and sustainability problems ; and one which is widely held to be having a negative impact on many other stakeholders within Scotland.
Petitioners have certainly found that trust has been lost in how the wider system supports people in the raising of safeguarding concerns, leaving many feeling that power is very much in the hands of the employer rather than independent regulation.
The Financial Memorandum includes the costs involved for one prosecution, and states that this would rise depending on how many prosecutions there were, and that using an assumption of prosecutions in 1% of cases of those who enter the process, there may be five prosecutions in year 20, at an estimated cost of £4,945.