Dear Shetland Islands Council,

Please provide the following data throughout the period of 2016/17 to 2020/21, breaking the results for each question down by year.

1. How many Full Time Equivalent (FTE) access officer your local authority employed

2. How many FTE non-seasonal rangers you employed .

3. How many seasonal rangers you employed. If possible, please list this as an FTE figure. If not possible, please provide what detail you are able to.

4. How many times your Local Access Forum met.

5. The total length (in km) of core paths in each financial year.

6. The total Section 11 orders issued to exempt land from access rights for less than 6 days.

7. The total Section 11 orders to exempt land from access rights for 6 days or more with confirmation by Scottish Ministers.

8. The total Section 14 notices issued to a land owner requiring obstructions to be removed.

9. The number of times the landowner complied and did not comply with Section 14 notices.

10. The number of Section 21 path agreements issued.

11. Total access authority capital expenditure on paths.

12. Total matched capital funding for paths.

13. Capital funding from other sources related to paths.

14. Maintenance expenditure on core paths.

15. Maintenance expenditure on non-core paths.

For more detail on some of data I'm asking for, please see this Scottish Government document:

https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/do...

Thanks for your help,

Jamie Mann

Thanks Jill,

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Mann

Hi Jill,

I just wanted to check whether the answers for questions 12 and 13 are zero or are not held?

Thanks,

Jamie Mann

Many thanks for confirming Jill,

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Mann