Question reference: S4W-08791
- Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 19 July 2012
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Current status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 August 2012
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the money received through (a) court and (b) fixed penalty fines it has (i) retained and (ii) had returned to it through the block grant in each year since 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government has no role in the collection of fines. This is an operational matter for the Scottish Court Service (SCS). Accordingly, it retains no monies from fines collection.
Please see the reply to S4W-08790 on 16 August 2012 for the amount of fine income which SCS retained in the years in question. All answers to parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
There is no direct relationship between the amounts arising from fines collection remitted to the Consolidated Fund by SCS, and the block grant to the Scottish Government.