Much of ADMG’s political engagement is covered on other pages on our site – see News and E-Scope. Links below are shown for items not covered elsewhere, or where it is sensible to package them together.
30 x 30 Commitment on Biodiversity and Freshwater Sites consultation – ADMG response, submitted May 2024
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill – ADMG response, submitted May 2024
Managing Deer for Climate and Nature – ADMG response, submitted 25 March 2024
Scotland’s Strategic Framework for Biodiversity. ADMG response – 13 December 2023
ADMG response to Future Grant Support for Forestry Consultation – May 2023
ADMG response to Forestry Grant Scheme consultation – May 2023
Additional Information from ADMG on the Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation Consultation – October 2022
ADMG response to Scotland’s Biodiversity Strategy consultation – August 2022
Letter to Mairi McAllan, Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and Land Reform, re Use of Dogs to control foxes and other wild animals – 21 November 2021
A Declaration for Upland Deer Management – 19 April 2021
Letter to Ministers – impact of accommodation restrictions on deer stalking sector, 15 October 2020
Letter to Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, re business rates relief, 13 April 2020
Letter to Cabinet Secretary in response to Deer Working Group (DWG) Report, March 2020
ADMG detailed point-by-point response to Deer Working Group report, March 2020
Defra consultation on import and export of hunting trophies –
ADMG response, January 2020
Debate on Deer Management in the Scottish Parliament – 2 May 2017
The ADMG briefing for MSPs for this debate can be accessed here
The debate can be watched on Scottish Parliament TV here
Deer Management in Scotland: Report to the Scottish Government from Scottish Natural Heritage (2016)
ECCLR Committee Report on deer management in Scotland: Report to the Scottish Government from Scottish Natural Heritage
The ECCLR Committee’s report on the above published in April 2017 can be accessed here
The full ADMG briefing note/commentary on the ECCLR Report can be accessed here
ECCLR Committee – final evidence session of the Deer Management Review
The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee of the Scottish Parliament undertook a review of deer management and, on 24 January 2017 in the final evidence session, heard for the second time from SNH. This gave SNH an opportunity to respond to some of the criticism levelled at its Report Deer Management in Scotland published in November 2016.
You can watch the video record of this and the previous ECCLR Committee evidence sessions on Scottish Parliament TV here
The draft written report of that final evidence session is available here
ADMG oral evidence on the report
ADMG gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee on the above report on 13 December 2016. The Scottish Parliament video of that evidence session is available here
ADMG’s written evidence on this report is available here
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
Political measures in relation to deer management and consideration of the removal of the exemption from business rates for sporting and deer forests were brought forward in the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed in the Scottish Parliament in March 2016 and has now become an Act following receipt of Royal Assent.
The following are documents and briefing notes produced through the process of the Bill.
ADMG briefing for all constituency and list MSPs in Scotland’s upland deer management areas.
ADMG information sheet (Q and A) for MSPs on the upland deer sector.
The Stage 1 report on the Bill was published by the RACCE Committee in December 2015.
A link to the ADMG response (14.12.2015) to the RACCE Committee Stage 1 report is also below.
This section gives easy links to relevant reports, consultation papers, and ADMG responses to consultations.
- ADMG commentary on the RACCE Committee Stage 1 Report on Land Reform (Scotland) Bill — download
- RACCE Committee Stage 1 Report on Land Reform (Scotland) Bill — download
- Land Reform Consultation Response — download
- Written evidence to the Rural Affairs and Climate Change Committee of the Scottish Parliament for the Review of the Impact of deer on Scotland’s Natural Heritage, (November 2013) — download
- Recommendations of the Scottish Parliament RACCE Committee to the Minister for Rural Affairs, Climate Change and the Environment Paul Wheelhouse MSP following its inquiry into the Impact of deer on Scotland’s natural heritage — link.
- RACCE Committee Inquiry – Impact of deer on Scotland’s natural heritage. Response of the Minister Paul Wheelhouse MSP to Rob Gibson MSP Convener of the RACCE Committee
- ADMG Principles of Collaboration — Common Ground