Delivering our vision for Scottish agriculture - proposals for a new Agriculture Bill: consultation

Chapter 4: Assessing the Impact

It is important that we understand in more detail the impacts that the options set out in this consultation paper on the new Agriculture Bill may have.

During the consultation period we plan to contact stakeholders to discuss the potential positive and negative effects of our proposals and those that others may suggest.

Please use these questions to tell us your views on these issues.

a) Are you aware of any potential costs and burdens that you think may arise as a result of the proposals within this consultation?

Please give reasons for your answer.

b) Are you aware of any examples of potential impacts, either positive or negative, that you consider that any of the proposals in this consultation may have on the environment?

Please give reasons for your answer

c) Are you aware of any examples of particular current or future impacts, positive or negative, on young people, of any aspect of the proposals in this consultation? Could any improvements be made?

Please give reasons for your answer.

d) Are you aware of any impacts, positive or negative, of the proposals in this consultation on data protection or privacy?

Please give reasons for your answer.

e) Are you aware of any examples of how the proposals in this consultation may impact, either positively or negatively, on those with protected characteristics (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation)?

Please give reasons for your answer.

f) Are you aware of any examples of how the proposals in this consultation might have particular positive or negative impacts on groups or areas experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage? These could be households with low incomes or few resources; families struggling to make ends meet; people who experienced poverty while growing up; or areas with few resources or opportunities compared with others.

Please give reasons for your answer.

g) Are you aware of any examples of how the proposals in this consultation might impact, positively or negatively, on island communities in a way that is different from the impact on mainland areas?

Please give reasons for your answer.