Current status: Answer expected on 24 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce levels of serious violent crime, in light of the Police Scotland quarterly data recording that, in the last decade, incidents have nearly doubled to over 1,000 per month, and what data it has collected as to the reasons for the increase, including data on the reasons for any variation between (a) each city, (b) urbans areas and (c) rural and island areas.