Member

The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, raised the issue of liability; I thank him for giving me advance notice of this. As I previously mentioned, burning is not the only tool to manage vegetation and other methods of land management are not being restricted through these regulations. The Government recognise that, in certain limited circumstances, prescribed burning may need to be used, which is why wildfire mitigation is included as one of the grounds on which one can apply for a licence to burn on peatlands.