How much funding has been provided in each of the last five financial years for (a) assessing, (b) monitoring, (c) researching, (d) prevent…

Scottish Government’s Marine Fund Scotland directly provides grants to deliver Scotland's Blue Economy Vision and this can include awards relating to fish health challenges. Details of awards made since 2021 are available on the Scottish Government website.The Scottish Government’s Fish Health Inspectorate has a regulatory role in ensuring that aquaculture production businesses have satisfactory measures in place for the prevention, control and reduction of sea lice. This function is part of a wider regulatory role which also includes surveillance and statutory controls relating to aquatic animal diseases listed in relevant legislation. Costs are not attributed to separate regulatory functions.The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has a regulatory role in the management of sea lice with regards to interactions between farmed and wild salmon and sea trout. The Scottish Government provided funding support of £70,000 in 2026-27 to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to co-fund a targeted programme of environmental monitoring to support its Sea Lice Regulatory Framework.SEPA is funded through Grant in Aid, which supports these functions and is not allocated or recorded by sector or activity, so a comprehensive breakdown relating specifically to salmon farming is not available.