Found: Kathleen has mentioned the new fisheries and water environment Bill.

Found: Kathleen has mentioned the new fisheries and water environment Bill.

Found: The UK Government proposes to introduce a DRS with a 15p charge, as outlined in the current Environment Bill

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Bill.

Answered by Douglas Alexander - Secretary of State for Scotland

The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched a review into the UK’s approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slavery, and environmental harms in global supply chains.

The review will be a neutral, objective appraisal of policy, led by departmental officials. It will consider the effectiveness of the UK’s current regime and the merits of alternative means of supporting responsible business practices.

Found: Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024v (PDF), p9-10 14 Environment Bill

Found: recommendation of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Report Committee in its report on the Environment Bill

Found: . • Environment Bill/Act Policy Advisors x 5. • ELM Policy Advisors x 2. • FFCP Policy Engagement and

Found: Similar provisions are to be set out in the Environment Bill, and therefore the intention is that the

Found: and mechanisms in place for success.These are all listed in policy memo in relation to Natural Environment Bill

Found: zero nation by 2045, have proposed a framework for statutory nature targets in the Natural Environment Bill

Found: Wilson provided an update on the progress of the Deer Management Provisions within the Natural Environment Bill

Found: the pre-Cabinet consideration process 3) Briefing on stakeholder responses to the Natural Environment Bill

Found: We have introduced a Natural Environment Bill which will support our ambition to restore biodiversity

Found: Further to this, a new Natural Environment Bill will put in place statutory targets to restore and protect

Found: translocations.An update on SG wildlife management work was also delivered, including on the Natural Environment Bill

Found: Statutory targets for nature will be included in a new Natural Environment Bill which introduced in

Found: • Natural Environment Bill : Proposed legislation including requirements for biodiversity improvement

Found: Strategy and proposals to establish statutory targets for nature restoration through a Natural Environment Bill

Found: the Scottish Government’s deer management proposals which have been included in the Natural Environment Bill

Found: restoration targets which will be set out in SEA for the Environment Strategy 58 the new Natural Environment Bill

Found: • Statutory nature restoration targets, to be set out in the Natural Environment Bill, which will

Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in

Found: Our forthcoming Natural Environment Bill will introduce new statutory targets for restoring nature in

Found: of the Scottish Government’s deer management policies which will be included in the Natural Environment Bill

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how it supports deer management in (a) lowland and (b) semi-rural areas.

Answered by Fairlie, Jim - Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity

Good deer management is about achieving balance, what that looks like in different local areas will vary depending on the immediate environment and the impact deer may be having. That is why we have introduced new purposes for deer management in our Natural Environment Bill. We recognise, however, that we need to use both regulation and incentive to support our deer management aims.

Three pilot incentive schemes led by NatureScot and the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) ran in 2024/25 to financially support deer managers to control numbers of deer in specific parts of Scotland in response to the climate and nature emergencies. Pilot schemes are expected to return in these areas for the 2025/26 season as well as expand to further locales including within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

In addition to this, in the lowlands specifically we are supporting deer management through the Low Ground Venison Supply Chain Project which will explore ways to help low ground deer managers improve the infrastructure for handling and chilling venison carcasses and increase throughput. 13 applicants have been issued grant funding to date.

As set out in our 2025-26 Programme for Government, we are committed to working with stakeholders on “the development of local pilot projects on deer management programmes, including an implementation plan and funding models deer management”.

Found: Ecocide was discussed in the UK Parliament in 2021 in the context of amendments to the UK Environment Bill

Found: principles, governance and biodiversity targets: White Paper, April 2024 27 UK Government, The Environment Bill

Found: In our report on the Environment Bill LCM in September 2021, we recommended that: “A future environmental