Question reference: S3W-04107
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 7 September 2007
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Current status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 September 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what knife crime figures have been in each year from 1995 to 2007, also showing the number of (a) street robberies involving blades, (b) people who died following blade attacks and (c) number of people admitted to hospitals with knife wounds, broken down by day of the week.
Answer
With theexception of homicide cases, statistics on knife crimes are not held centrally.The number of homicide cases in each year from 1995 to 2006, in which themethod of killing was with a sharp instrument, are shown in the following table.Homicide figures for 2006-07 are due to be published on 18 December 2007.
Number ofHomicides Where the Method of Killing was with a Sharp Instrument1,1995-96 to 2005-06
| Year | Number of Homicides |
| 1995-96 | 69 |
| 1996-97 | 49 |
| 1997-98 | 39 |
| 1998-99 | 39 |
| 1999-2000 | 67 |
| 2000-01 | 48 |
| 2001-02 | 56 |
| 2002-03 | 60 |
| 2003-04 | 55 |
| 2004-05 | 72 |
| 2005-06 | 34 |
Note: 1. Includesknives and other sharp instruments.