Scottish Crown Estate draft strategic management plan: consultation

Reporting, monitoring and review

158. This is the first Strategic Management Plan for the Scottish Crown Estate and will be laid before the Scottish Parliament once finalised. Scottish Ministers are required to review the Plan within five years. A review may either result in a revised Plan being prepared (subject to consultation, laying and publication requirements) as set out in the Act or laying of a statement in the Scottish Parliament indicating we consider that the Plan should not be revised.

159. The Scottish Government will monitor implementation of the Plan, delivery of the objectives, priorities and policies and alignment with wider objectives, priorities and policies. The Scottish Government will work with Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) and prospective managers of Scottish Crown Estate assets to ensure that appropriate monitoring is undertaken alongside wider monitoring under the NPF.

160. The Act provides for a national framework to govern management of the assets at the national and local level. This framework includes national reporting and accounting arrangements.

161. The monitoring and review of the Plan will be informed by the delivery of targets in Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management)'s Corporate Plan and any Management Plans prepared by other managers.

162. Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management)'s Corporate Plan and any other Management Plans should set out how the manager plans to manage the asset under their management over the next 3 years. The plan should:

• Set out the manager's objectives for the period;
• The activities the manager proposes to undertake during that period;
• Any risks associated with those activities;
• Outcomes against which the achievement of the objectives may be assessed;
• How the manager proposes to maintain and seek to enhance the value of the assets under their management; and
• Set out whether the manager proposes to dispose of any Scottish Crown Estate asset during that period and, if so, how the manager proposes to use any proceeds of the disposal.

163. Annual Reports provide an assessment of how a manager has performed against the objectives. As such, Annual Reports and Management Plans will be one of the sources of information about the performance of the managers of the assets.

164. Monitoring is an integral part of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and a proposed monitoring framework has been developed to track the significant environmental effects of implementing the Plans to address data gaps identified in the SEA.

Q10 Do you have any comments or additional suggestions on the arrangements for monitoring and review of the Plan? Please explain your answer.

a) Yes
b) No