Funds awarded for installation of deer fences from 2018 to 2023: EIR release

Information requested

Data on the amount of money awarded for the installation of deer fences from 2018/19 to 2022/23 as well as the total length of deer fencing. You also requested that this data be provided in a map / spatial data.

Response

This data is not available in a digitised map format, nor do we hold this data spatially. We have, however, provided this data in a tabular format including the Rural Payments and Inspections Division (RPID) Office geographic area associated with this data.

The table below contains data related to Deer Fence and Upgrading Stock to Deer Fence capital items awarded to successful Agri-environment Climate Scheme (AECS) and Forestry Grants Scheme (FGS) applications:

RPID Area		2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	Total
Ayr	£	614,637	415,154	386,360	299,935	328,214	2,044,300
	Metres	97,036	60,897	54,020	39,776	43,713	295,442
Benbecula	£	0	8,316	6,017	0	5,792	20,124
	Metres	0	840	696	0	585	2,121
Dumfries	£	188,967	359,113	235,703	428,051	326,134	1,537,969
	Metres	28,910	57,384	31,578	58,217	42,521	218,611
Elgin	£	62,126	146,444	124,824	182,524	78,462	594,381
	Metres	9,123	19,780	15,693	24,764	10,324	79,684
Galashiels	£	630,464	754,368	720,169	414,714	696,134	3,215,851
	Metres	97,315	112,506	100,299	58,047	89,880	458,047
Golspie	£	325,548	402,801	449,558	425,198	323,564	1,926,669
	Metres	34,180	40,328	45,440	43,083	33,562	196,593
Hamilton	£	104,968	237,474	119,519	55,958	204,842	722,761
	Metres	15,716	36,954	16,479	7,522	27,481	104,152
Inverness	£	904,513	839,580	992,205	891,975	667,362	4,295,635
	Metres	100,904	92,006	100,621	92,115	63,542	449,188
Inverurie	£	182,467	331,277	310,764	353,483	440,649	1,618,639
	Metres	26,833	48,211	41,037	46,472	56,057	218,610
Oban	£	682,238	1,011,580	738,971	622,963	254,578	3,310,329
	Metres	74,267	103,502	78,744	66,299	26,244	349,056
Perth	£	1,253,009	872,686	991,483	844,829	655,556	4,617,563
	Metres	169,277	115,908	125,759	108,656	83,640	603,239
Portree	£	67,283	16,533	115,431	54,794	0	254,041
	Metres	6,930	1,670	11,660	5,635	0	25,895
Stornoway	£	13,365	20,018	4,019	0	0	37,402
	Metres	1,350	2,022	406	0	0	3,778
Thurso	£	59,976	13,761	283,362	9,406	130,666	497,169
	Metres	6,831	1,390	26,636	950	13,351	49,158
Total	£	5,089,562	5,429,105	5,478,386	4,583,828	4,111,954	24,692,834
	Metres	668,672	693,398	649,068	551,536	490,900	3,053,574

You also requested the amount of money awarded for the installation of plastic fence materials as well as the total length of plastic fencing over the last five years.

We do not have a specific plastic fence capital item available within the Agri-environment Climate Scheme (AECS) or the Forestry Grants Scheme (FGS). It may be possible that plastic materials could be used for both the enhancing / modifying a deer and stock fence capital items, however other fence marking materials are permissible including bamboo, wood, metal and heather. As we do not collate specific information on the type of materials used for fence marking we are not able to provide data on this particular request.

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