Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 10 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many abandoned vehicles have been reported in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
As previously confirmed in the response to S6W-28174 on 27 June 2024, information regarding the number of abandoned vehicles reported to local authorities is not centrally held.
Management information is available from Police Scotland on the number of police recorded incidents of abandoned vehicles. This is provided below, split by the local authority within which the incident occurred.
It should be noted that not all abandoned vehicles will relate to cars and an incident may relate to more than one abandoned vehicle. This information was consistently recorded across all police divisions from the calendar year of 2019 onwards and therefore the figures provided below relate to the period 1 January 2019 to 18 June 2024. As such the 2024 figures relate to only a partial year.
Recorded incidents of abandoned vehicles, 1 January 2019 to 18 June 2024.
Local Authority | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Scotland | 18,422 | 13,471 | 14,109 | 13,702 | 13,549 | 6,770 |
Aberdeen City | 1,208 | 797 | 784 | 639 | 639 | 311 |
Aberdeenshire | 680 | 559 | 534 | 553 | 496 | 261 |
Angus | 367 | 282 | 320 | 248 | 295 | 123 |
Argyll and Bute | 249 | 162 | 182 | 164 | 168 | 82 |
Clackmannanshire | 145 | 103 | 131 | 130 | 99 | 49 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 407 | 317 | 348 | 313 | 278 | 149 |
Dundee City | 615 | 494 | 579 | 517 | 518 | 264 |
East Ayrshire | 404 | 283 | 318 | 251 | 282 | 152 |
East Dunbartonshire | 337 | 267 | 300 | 248 | 272 | 119 |
East Lothian | 327 | 241 | 292 | 303 | 303 | 174 |
East Renfrewshire | 280 | 215 | 227 | 224 | 214 | 114 |
Edinburgh, City of | 1,889 | 1,208 | 1,388 | 1,402 | 1,286 | 657 |
Falkirk | 526 | 425 | 408 | 419 | 450 | 238 |
Fife | 1,093 | 854 | 859 | 846 | 907 | 437 |
Glasgow City | 2,219 | 1,501 | 1,654 | 1,668 | 1,636 | 837 |
Highland | 798 | 610 | 609 | 627 | 654 | 324 |
Inverclyde | 236 | 185 | 199 | 167 | 147 | 70 |
Midlothian | 409 | 255 | 302 | 261 | 304 | 151 |
Moray | 258 | 208 | 192 | 202 | 217 | 103 |
Na h-Eilean Siar | 44 | 32 | 26 | 34 | 25 | 10 |
North Ayrshire | 417 | 315 | 345 | 328 | 297 | 132 |
North Lanarkshire | 1,317 | 918 | 927 | 832 | 839 | 379 |
Orkney Islands | 27 | 16 | 16 | 24 | 21 | 14 |
Perth and Kinross | 478 | 374 | 374 | 425 | 369 | 202 |
Renfrewshire | 696 | 482 | 447 | 517 | 485 | 243 |
Scottish Borders | 287 | 256 | 249 | 260 | 252 | 137 |
Shetland Islands | 23 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 15 |
South Ayrshire | 337 | 295 | 264 | 261 | 300 | 131 |
South Lanarkshire | 1,145 | 832 | 864 | 902 | 780 | 452 |
Stirling | 264 | 215 | 224 | 211 | 246 | 101 |
West Dunbartonshire | 327 | 253 | 235 | 179 | 232 | 119 |
West Lothian | 613 | 495 | 492 | 525 | 518 | 220 |
Source: Police Scotland Management Information