This Government has cut the total forestry and land budget by £3.4 million, it has cut the environmental quality budget by £3.9 million and it has cut Scottish Water’s budget by £1.8 million. While the First Minister trots out warm words on protecting Scotland’s environment, are these colds cuts not his own shameful hypocrisy?
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. When failing to answer Douglas Ross earlier, the First Minister said that the United Kingdom Government has given: “not a single penny of funding towards the Scottish cluster or the Acorn project”. Anyone who was in command of his brief would know that the UK Government has, in fact, given more than £40 million to the Scottish cluster. In the light...
6. To ask the Scottish Government what actions it is taking to mitigate any negative effects of commercial forestry on farming. (S6O-02297)
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