Question reference: S3W-17546
- Asked by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 5 November 2008
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Current status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 November 2008
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of antisocial behaviour involving misuse of fireworks were recorded in each of the last five years for which information is available, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Police recorded crime statistics do not include information on the number of incidents of antisocial behaviour involving misuse of fireworks.
Information is held on the number of antisocial behaviour offences, however it is not possible to determine how many of these offences relate to the misuse of fireworks.
The Scottish Government receives details of the number of fireworks or bonfire related incidents reported to the police in Scotland in the six weeks around 5 November. They were 4,506 in 2004, 4,865 in 2005, 5,472 in 2006, 4,002 in 2007 and 2,517 in 2008.