Modern Slavery Statement
Scottish Forestry is committed to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking within our operations and supply chains.
Modern slavery
Transparency Reporting
As part of our transparency, we publish all of our expenditure over £25,000 on a quarterly basis.
Government spend over £25,000 Quarterly reports
Please note: Payments made through the Forestry Grant Scheme are processed directly by the Scottish Government as the paying agency and recharged to Scottish Forestry monthly.
National Fraud Initiative
Through our participation in the Audit Scotland data matching exercise we are required to provide particular sets of data to them for matching for each exercise, and these are set out in Audit Scotland’s instructions, which can be found on their website.
Audit Scotland website
The use of data by Audit Scotland in a data matching exercise is conducted with statutory authority, normally under its powers in Part 2A of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000.
It does not require the consent of the individuals concerned under General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
