Agriculture - national test programme: equality impact assessment

Recommendations and conclusion

This is a voluntary scheme that is open to existing recipients of CAP support (as long as they meet the minimal entry requirements) for Track One, or open to those identified as part of the representative sample for Track Two, and is designed to encourage businesses to collect information about their own farm/land. The Scottish Government has therefore concluded that it will not have any significant impact on people (including those with protected characteristics).

This EQIA has identified evidence gaps in relation to the equalities impacts of existing CAP schemes. As a result, consideration is being given as to whether some equalities information from participants in Track Two could be requested as part of the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which is currently in development, in order to begin the process of addressing these evidence gaps. These evidence gaps will also be further considered as part of the wider transition to a new long term rural support framework.