Question reference: S5W-29976
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 16 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much public funding has been invested in peatland management and restoration in each year since 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government has invested £33 million since 2012-13 in restoration of peatlands via Peatland Action and the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme under the Scottish Rural Development Programme. Peatland restoration is an important nature-based solution to climate change and biodiversity loss and delivers a number of other ecosystem services such as improvement of water quality and management of downstream flood risk.
The broader management of peatlands, which includes some further restoration activity for which it is not possible to disaggregate separate budget figures, is part of a wider endeavour to care for our upland, moorland and heaths, on which a further £36 million has been spent since 2006-07.
A further breakdown on an annual basis can be found in the following table:
Year | Public spending on | Public spending on Management |
2006-2007 | 0.14 | |
2007-2008 | 0.63 | |
2008-2009 | 1.29 | |
2009-2010 | 1.90 | |
2010-2011 | 2.28 | |
2011-2012 | 2.37 | |
2012-2013 | 0.20 | 2.22 |
2013-2014 | 0.49 | 1.93 |
2014-2015 | 4.25 | 1.91 |
2015-2016 | 3.50 | 2.60 |
2016-2017 | 0.82 | 3.35 |
2017-2018 | 5.49 | 4.85 |
2018-2019 | 7.86 | 5.41 |
2019-2020 | 10.35 | 5.13 |
Total | 32.95 | 36.00 |