Current status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was collected by each district court in each of the last three years and how much was (a) retained by each local authority and (b) forwarded to HM Treasury.
The available information is contained in the following table. This data is taken from the annual returns made by Commission Areas to the Scottish Government.
Money Collected1 and Sent Out by District Courts 2004-05 to 2006-07, by Commission Area
| Commission Area
| Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Collected During Year | Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Sent to the Exchequer During the Year | ||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| Aberdeen City | £1,080,678 | £852,047 | £680,400 | £289,360 | £255,186 | £275,941 |
| Aberdeenshire | £440,674 | £560,965 | £994,982 | £310,988 | £343,928 | £310,988 |
| Angus | £488,752 | £518,559 | £395,271 | £323,277 | £356,047 | £323,277 |
| Argyll and Bute | £212,839 | £216,652 | £221,416 | £134,089 | £128,146 | £134,089 |
| Clackmannanshire | £140,064 | £129,213 | £151,780 | £93,135 | £87,934 | £93,135 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | n/a | £377,238 | n/a | n/a | £363,628 | n/a |
| Dundee City | £656,948 | £567,679 | n/a | £261,985 | £242,942 | n/a |
| East Ayrshire | £1,371,905 | £350,553 | £271,683 | £230,560 | £275,828 | £230,560 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £158,934 | £103,905 | £110,016 | £95,621 | £34,630 | £95,621 |
| East Lothian | £125,044 | £140,695 | n/a | £86,984 | £114,053 | n/a |
| East Renfrewshire | £59,580 | £104,908 | £50,717 | £43,232 | £39,672 | £43,232 |
| Edinburgh, City of | £2,885,881 | £2,357,461 | £2,185,353 | £795,448 | £1,264,788 | £795,448 |
| Eilean Siar | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Falkirk | £476,545 | £538,580 | £354,339 | £369,331 | £440,621 | £369,331 |
| Fife | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Glasgow City | £3,359,364 | £3,274,122 | £3,420,280 | £2,475,738 | £1,650,945 | £2,475,738 |
| Highland | £839,748 | £948,809 | £854,598 | £586,691 | £471,138 | £586,691 |
| Inverclyde | £340,472 | £304,680 | £235,938 | £294,719 | £250,605 | £294,719 |
| Midlothian | £108,068 | £149,083 | £119,074 | £65,999 | £108,493 | £65,999 |
| Moray | £133,900 | £148,084 | £71,248 | £84,373 | £93,307 | £84,373 |
| North Ayrshire | £1,018,904 | £240,133 | £280,723 | £143,024 | £194,041 | £143,024 |
| North Lanarkshire | £804,391 | £739,141 | £589,702 | £237,250 | £251,766 | £237,250 |
| Perth and Kinross | £731,398 | £681,201 | £363,013 | £136,721 | £236,814 | £136,721 |
| Renfrewshire | £183,932 | £313,802 | £398,438 | £120,507 | £176,519 | £120,507 |
| Scottish Borders | £315,436 | £376,431 | £346,047 | £254,870 | £289,745 | £254,870 |
| South Ayrshire | £409,938 | n/a | £383,761 | £144,565 | n/a | £144,565 |
| South Lanarkshire | £565,827 | £765,221 | £681,893 | £395,791 | £340,522 | £395,791 |
| Stirling | n/a | £198,117 | £190,437 | n/a | £134,041 | n/a |
| West Dunbartonshire | £201,584 | £218,385 | £220,476 | £99,717 | £116,524 | £99,717 |
| West Lothian | £333,804 | £331,925 | £458,486 | £252,537 | £236,028 | £252,537 |
| Scotland | £17,444,611 | £15,507,589 | £14,030,072 | £8,326,514 | £8,497,890 | £7,964,126 |
Notes:
1. Including fines imposed by the court, registered fines, compensation orders, fines transferred out, fiscal fines and fixed penalty notices.
n/a - information not available from Commission Areas.
In some areas, a proportion of the money collected by district courts is also sent to the Safety Camera Partnership.