The Scottish Executive is already successfully delivering its wide-ranging land reform agenda,which includes legislation to abolish Scotland’s archaic feudal system; to simplifyagricultural tenancies and provide an agricultural tenant’s right to buy; to establishstatutory rights of responsible access to land and inland water for recreationalpurposes; to provide opportunities for rural and crofting communities to purchaseland; to address local government issues, and to create National Parks in Scotland.Implementation of this programme is on-going and we have recently consulted on,and are now considering responses to, a draft of a Crofting Reform Bill, which Ihope will be introduced to Parliament in the 2005-06 legislative session.The Scottish Executive has also delivered non-legislative measures, such as increasing local communityinvolvement in land management; introducing the Forestry Commission Scotland’s NationalForest Land Scheme; increasing awareness of compulsory purchase powers; providinginformation on sources of land ownership; co-ordination of activity...