National Records of Scotland (NRS) has opened a public consultation on the Scottish Register of Tartans.
The Register is a vital tool for preserving and recording one of Scotland’s most iconic cultural assets. NRS has maintained the register and overseen the addition of tartans since 2009. It now contains over 10,000 designs, with around 400 tartans added each year.
The consultation asks for your views on the existing system of fees. As a public body, NRS is obliged to recover the costs of our services. The fees associated with the Register have not been updated since it was established more than 15 years ago.
The consultation will be open for 12 weeks. Insights from this consultation will help NRS continue to preserve and record Scotland’s unique tartans for current and future generations.
NRS chief executive Alison Byrne, who acts as the Keeper of the Register of Tartans, said:
“The Scottish Register of Tartans is a unique record of the history of one of Scotland’s most distinctive cultural artefacts. We are very keen to hear the views of people who have registered tartans and from others with an interest in preserving our heritage.
"National Records of Scotland provides a wide variety of public services and our customers are at the heart of our work. Our priority is to ensure that we make the right changes.”
You can take part in the consultation now via the consultation tool Citizen Space.
Find out more about registering tartans at the website of the Scottish Register of Tartans.
