Question reference: S4W-28367
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll and Bute, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 November 2015
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Current status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 24 November 2015
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what arrangements it has put in place to ensure that action is being taken to eradicate Japanese knotweed on publicly-owned land.
Answer
It is not our policy to eradicate Japanese knotweed in Scotland or to eradicate it from all publicly-owned land. That effort would be prohibitively expensive and is unlikely to be successful.
Where Japanese knotweed has been reported as causing a problem on land owned by Scottish ministers we will consider options for treatment or eradication. Where it is reported on local authority land, the local authority is responsible for assessing what should be done.