Draft Scottish Marine Litter Strategy: Analysis of Consultation Responses
This report presents the analysis of responses to the Scottish Government’s ‘Consultation on a Draft Scottish Marine Litter Strategy'. The consultation closed on 27 September 2013.
2. Consultation Responses and Approach to Analysis
Written responses
The Scottish Government set up a dedicated webpage to provide information about the consultation, including the consultation document and the standard response form containing all 30 questions. Respondents could submit their responses directly through the response form on this webpage.
Respondents were also invited to submit their responses by email or by post to the Scottish Government's Marine Planning and Policy Division.
All of the published responses to this consultation can be viewed on the Scottish Government website at:
Response rate
A total of 98 written responses were received in response to the consultation document. Individuals comprised the largest single respondent group, submitting 73% of all responses received.
The number of respondents by respondent group are summarised in Table 1 below.
| Respondent Group |
Number of responses |
|---|---|
| Public sector |
3 |
| Local Authority or Local Authority Representative Body |
5 |
| Environment / Conservation |
2 |
| Individuals |
72 |
| Energy |
1 |
| Tourism and Recreation |
1 |
| Fisheries |
1 |
| Aquaculture |
1 |
| Local Group |
5 |
| Other |
7 |
Table 1 - Respondents
Not all respondents gave answers to every question.
Approach to analysis
The responses received included 72 which were submitted by individual members of the public and 26 by bodies or organisations. The majority of those individual responses were examples of campaign responses, very similar responses were submitted. Each have been treated as a separate response for the purposes of the analysis.
The majority of respondents were from Scottish organisations and individuals (60%), although many were received from people and organisations based in other parts of the UK or out with the UK.
Three quarters of responses were submitted using the Respondent Information Form ( RIF) which is specified by the Scottish Government and the remaining responses were submitted as free text. The comments submitted by all respondents have been taken into account, with non- RIF comments that were not clear regarding which question they were intended to address being assigned to the most relevant consultation question.
The Scottish Government has entered all of the response data from each response received into a database. A qualitative analysis of comments provided by respondents was undertaken, with key themes encapsulated in the analysis.
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