Asked by: Cameron, Donald (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Highlands and Islands)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the number of (a) incidents and (b) emergency service callouts there were for mountaineering accidents in each year since 2011.
Answered by Brown, Keith - Deputy Party Leader
Each year, Scottish Government receives a copy of the Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) ‘Annual Review’, which includes the total number of ‘incidents’ and ‘callouts’ involving SMR teams; the collated information from the reports, for each year since 2011, is provided in the following table:-
SMR Incidents | |||||||||||||
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||
Mountaineering | 413 | 381 | 347 | 273 | 331 | 235 | 216 | 239 | 243 | 289 | 345 | ||
Non | 160 | 162 | 239 | 260 | 248 | 201 | 207 | 349 | 259 | 308 | 315 | ||
Total | 573 | 543 | 586 | 533 | 579 | 436 | 423 | 588 | 502 | 597 | 660 | ||
SMR Callouts | |||||||||||||
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||
Mountaineering | < No breakdown available for these years > | 327 | 395 | ||||||||||
Non | 389 | 558 | |||||||||||
Total | 859 | 872 | 884 | 795 | 762 | 823 | 686 | 788 | 733 | 716 | 953 |
Feb. 10 2023
Source Page: Snowsports sector 2022 - economic, social, and cultural impact: researchFound: an interest in the snowsports secto r include Scottish Disability Sport, Disability Snowsport UK, Mountaineering
Feb. 06 2023
Source Page: Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF): recommended projects 2014 to 2024Found: B -listed Victorian former church & church hall, (out of use since 2008) into a ful ly accessible Mountaineering
Mentions:
1: Cameron, Donald (Con - Highlands and Islands) their families.Sarah, from the Isle of Luing, was a senior physiotherapist for 25 years and she enjoyed mountaineering - Speech Link
Found: Edinburgh • James Allan, Scottish Advisory Panel for Outdoor Education (SAPOE) • Stuart Younie, Mountaineering
Jan. 26 2023
Source Page: Draft guidance on environmental claimsFound: This response is supported by the following Link member organisations: ● British Mountaineering Council
Dec. 12 2022
Source Page: Annual report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest 2021 to 2022Found: The independent assessors for this case were Paula Williams (Curator of Map, Mountaineering and Polar
Dec. 12 2022
Source Page: Annual report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest 2021 to 2022Found: The independent assessors for this case were Paula Williams (Curator of Map, Mountaineering and Polar
Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made for the implications of her policies of the proposals outlined in the British Mountaineering Council's open letter entitled the Outdoors for All.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The Government agrees with the three proposals set out in British Mountaineering Council’s open letter specifically that there should be fair access to the outdoors for everyone, better opportunities for young people to access the outdoors, and that we should invest in the health and well-being benefits of spending time in nature. We are working across departments developing a number of policies to open up access; for example, through active travel, nature-rich school grounds, more urban parks and green social prescribing.
To support fair access for all, for example:
To support opportunities for young people to connect with nature we are, for example:
To support the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time in nature, we are, for example:
Found: Liz Smith MSP Jane Campbell Morrison Scottish Adventure Activities Forum (SAAF), Stuart Younie Mountaineering