SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
WRITTEN ANSWER
5 March 2010
Index Heading: Rural Affairs and the Environment
Jamie McGrigor (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the revenue raised from the sale of land previously used as ram and bull stud farms at Knocknagael and Beechwood was used exclusively in the crofting sector and to support the bull hire scheme and whether the revenue raised from any subsequent such sales will be used exclusively to support the bull hire scheme or the creation of community-managed stud farms.
(S3W-31931)
Ms Roseanna Cunningham MSP :
The receipt for the sale of Beechwood Farm to Highlands and Islands Enterprise was £3.15 million, as notified to Parliament in the answer to question S3W-17877 on
27 November 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
It is intended to sell off surplus land from the remaining farms. The stud facilities will be upgraded and some sale proceeds will be used to defray costs involved in setting up the new Register of Crofts proposed by the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Bill.
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
