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A total of £23,300,583 was sent to HM Treasury in 2002-03 from fines, forfeitures and fixed penalties.

The available information is given in the following tables.The tables give information separately for sections 68(1), 68(2) and 68(3) of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976. However, information on sections 68(5), 69(1), 69(2) and 70(1) cannot be separately distinguished as crimes recorded by the police under these sections are given the same crime classification as crimes under other legislation.Offences Recorded by the Police Under Section 68(1) of the Licensing Scotland Act 1976, 1997 to 2001

Local Authority Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland	385	237	195	179	292
Aberdeen City	6	14	10	14	22
Aberdeenshire	17	24	18	14	16
Angus	5	8	2	0	2
Argyll and Bute	9	1	9	8	6
Clackmannanshire	2	6	0	2	5
Dumfries and Galloway	16	14	23	1	1
Dundee City	21	4	1	8	6
East Ayrshire	8	3	2	9	3
East Dunbartonshire	18	6	6	4	20
East Lothian	2	1	1	3	6
East Renfrewshire	5	5	1	9	4
Edinburgh, City of	12	7	7	1	11
Eilean Siar	7	0	0	0	1
Falkirk	10	5	1	3	34
Fife	40	28	19	7	13
Glasgow City	56	22	23	33	18
Highland	13	13	14	29	23
Inverclyde	3	1	0	6	4
Midlothian	0	0	0	0	6
Moray	2	2	15	3	7
North Ayrshire	14	16	6	0	2
North Lanarkshire	13	4	1	4	6
Orkney Islands	1	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	17	4	9	1	1
Renfrewshire	5	5	0	0	5
Scottish Borders	22	11	2	0	10
Shetland Islands	1	0	0	3	2
South Ayrshire	18	5	1	11	7
South Lanarkshire	16	8	13	3	14
Stirling	5	7	3	0	14
West Dunbartonshire	9	5	8	0	5
West Lothian	12	8	0	3	18

Offences Recorded by the Police Under Section 68(2) of the Licensing Scotland Act 1976, 1997 to 2001

Local Authority Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland	185	80	99	72	96
Aberdeen City	1	0	2	1	2
Aberdeenshire	8	3	10	6	9
Angus	10	6	1	2	3
Argyll and Bute	2	1	13	7	6
Clackmannanshire	0	0	0	1	3
Dumfries and Galloway	5	2	3	0	1
Dundee City	12	6	2	3	2
East Ayrshire	4	1	1	2	0
East Dunbartonshire	10	1	3	2	5
East Lothian	0	0	1	0	5
East Renfrewshire	3	1	0	4	3
Edinburgh, City of	1	0	2	1	1
Eilean Siar	4	0	0	0	1
Falkirk	0	2	1	0	9
Fife	11	4	5	3	2
Glasgow City	37	11	8	6	6
Highland	12	12	4	14	8
Inverclyde	2	4	0	0	1
Midlothian	1	0	1	0	0
Moray	4	1	4	2	5
North Ayrshire	3	6	2	1	3
North Lanarkshire	2	0	4	0	3
Orkney Islands	1	1	2	0	1
Perth and Kinross	13	5	16	1	1
Renfrewshire	7	1	0	5	0
Scottish Borders	5	4	3	0	0
Shetland Islands	2	1	0	3	1
South Ayrshire	8	1	0	6	4
South Lanarkshire	7	0	8	1	3
Stirling	3	3	1	1	3
West Dunbartonshire	2	2	2	0	0
West Lothian	5	1	0	0	5

Offences Recorded by the Police Under Section 68(3) of the Licensing Scotland Act 1976, 1997 to 2001

Local Authority Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland	347	215	144	161	209
Aberdeen City	6	2	6	6	5
Aberdeenshire	10	5	5	5	6
Angus	31	16	3	5	8
Argyll and Bute	7	10	16	14	12
Clackmannanshire	0	0	0	4	4
Dumfries and Galloway	46	17	2	4	9
Dundee City	10	7	3	7	19
East Ayrshire	5	2	2	7	5
East Dunbartonshire	4	7	3	3	9
East Lothian	0	1	2	2	3
East Renfrewshire	4	1	1	3	2
Edinburgh, City of	2	0	1	0	1
Eilean Siar	11	2	2	2	0
Falkirk	3	1	3	1	9
Fife	14	10	7	6	12
Glasgow City	49	31	11	28	24
Highland	29	30	19	17	23
Inverclyde	0	1	2	4	2
Midlothian	0	2	1	1	2
Moray	4	5	2	4	8
North Ayrshire	10	13	4	2	5
North Lanarkshire	12	2	4	2	1
Orkney Islands	7	1	4	6	5
Perth and Kinross	24	8	6	2	3
Renfrewshire	5	2	3	2	2
Scottish Borders	16	11	6	4	8
Shetland Islands	0	1	0	3	0
South Ayrshire	16	8	5	3	8
South Lanarkshire	11	6	12	10	1
Stirling	5	3	3	0	4
West Dunbartonshire	4	6	0	4	4
West Lothian	2	4	6	0	5

Fiscal fines are generally collected by the district courts and, as such, the information collated centrally and given in the following table is by district court, rather than sheriff court. Information on the value of fiscal fines outstanding in Orkney and Shetland, where payment is made to the sheriff court, is not readily available from the information held centrally. Data for the year ending March 2003 are not expected to be available until the autumn of 2003. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable for different courts in different years.Value (£) of Fiscal Fines Outstanding at 31 March 2002

District Court	Value Outstanding (£)
Aberdeen City	4,088
Aberdeenshire	1,411
Angus	3,215
Argyll and Bute	1,180
Clackmannanshire	1,088
Dumfries and Galloway	9,620
Dundee City	11,408
East Ayrshire	7,350
East Dunbartonshire	1,377
East Lothian	732
East Renfrewshire	850
Edinburgh, City of	1,066
Eilean Siar	N/A
Falkirk	3,386
Fife	N/A
Glasgow City	96,504
Highland	4,967
Inverclyde	4,488
Midlothian	1,040
Moray	2,329
North Ayrshire	2,892
North Lanarkshire	N/A
Perth and Kinross	11,842
Renfrewshire	5,228
Scottish Borders	4,677
South Ayrshire	5,606
South Lanarkshire	37,411
Stirling	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	3,801
West Lothian	N/A
Scotland	227,553

Note:"N/A" denotes data not available.

The available information is given in the table. These figures are compiled on the basis of calendar years and, therefore, figures for 2003 are not yet available.Number of Sheriff Court Fines Ordered for Recovery by Civil Diligence and Proportion this Represents of Total Fines Imposed¹, 2002

Sheriff Court	Number of Fines	% of Total Fines Imposed
Aberdeen	0	0
Airdrie	1	0.07
Alloa	0	0
Arbroath	0	0
Ayr	0	0
Banff	0	0
Campbeltown	0	0
Cupar	0	0
Dingwall	0	0
Dornoch	0	0
Dumbarton	0	0
Dumfries	0	0
Dundee	0	0
Dunfermline	1	0.08
Dunoon	0	0
Duns	0	0
Edinburgh	3	0.05
Elgin	0	0
Falkirk	1	0.07
Forfar	0	0
Fort William	0	0
Glasgow	0	0
Greenock	0	0
Haddington	1	0.17
Hamilton	0	0
Inverness	0	0
Jedburgh	0	0
Kilmarnock	1	0.05
Kirkcaldy	1	0.06
Kirkcudbright	0	0
Kirkwall	1	0.54
Lanark	0	0
Lerwick	1	0.42
Linlithgow	1	0.06
Lochmaddy	0	0
Oban	0	0
Paisley	0	0
Peebles	0	0
Perth	0	0
Peterhead	0	0
Portree	0	0
Rothesay	0	0
Selkirk	0	0
Stirling	0	0
Stonehaven	0	0
Stornoway	0	0
Stranraer	1	0.14
Tain	0	0
Wick	0	0
Total	13	0.03

Note:1. Fines marked for recovery by civil diligence in whole or in part. There are no figures available on the actual amounts recovered.

Information on the number of district court fines remitted in 2002-03 is not expected to be available until the autumn of 2003. Data on the values of district court fines remitted are not held centrally.

Data in respect of 2002-03 are not expected to be available until the autumn of 2003.

The number of district court fines remitted in 2001-02 was given in reply to question S1W-33922. Data for 2002-03 are not expected to be available until the autumn of 2003. The values of district court fines remitted are not held centrally.

Data on sheriff court fines remitted in 2001-2 and 2002-03 are currently being compiled. I will write once this information is available and place a copy of the letter in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.

 

Cathy Jamieson provided a further answer pursuant tothis question on 29 August 2003; see below.

 

Cathy Jamieson pursuant to her reply, 3 June 2003, page 35; http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/wa-03/wa0603.htm]: I undertook in the answer given on 3 June to parliamentary question S2W-85 to write to you once the information requested on sheriff court fines remitted was available. The figures in question have now been compiled and are given in the attached table.

The system used for writing off fines was changed in 2001-02.As a result, fines due for write-off in 2001-02 were not written off until afterthe end of the financial year and are therefore included within the figures for 2002-03. There are various reasons why some courts show nil returns. These include some courts having no fines meeting the appropriate criteria; sheriff clerks having the option to leave fines on their books, and some courts putting fines to the sheriff to discharge rather than writing them off.

Fines Written Off in the Sheriff Courts, 2002-03¹

Sheriff Court	Number of Fines2	Value (£)3
Aberdeen	117	29,579
Airdrie	49	11,100
Alloa	0	0
Arbroath	0	0
Ayr	0	0
Banff	8	4,112
Campbeltown	0	0
Cupar	0	0
Dingwall	0	0
Dornoch	0	0
Dumbarton	21	3,265
Dumfries	30	3,809
Dundee	28	6,274
Dunfermline	0	0
Dunoon	0	0
Duns	0	0
Edinburgh	581	139,558
Elgin	19	4,263
Falkirk	0	0
Forfar	0	0
Fort William	0	0
Glasgow	23	103,736
Greenock	0	0
Haddington	0	0
Hamilton	246	64,938
Inverness	32	6,672
Jedburgh	0	0
Kilmarnock	30	7,476
Kirkcaldy	0	0
Kirkcudbright	0	0
Kirkwall	0	0
Lanark	0	0
Lerwick	0	0
Linlithgow	31	6,430
Lochmaddy	0	0
Oban	0	0
Paisley	43	15,848
Peebles	0	0
Perth	0	0
Peterhead	0	0
Portree	0	0
Rothesay	0	0
Selkirk	0	0
Stirling	0	0
Stonehaven	0	0
Stornoway	0	0
Stranraer	0	0
Tain	2	636
Wick	0	0
Scotland	1,260	408,148

Notes:

1. Includes fines which weredue for write off in 2001-02.

2. Excludes non-exchequerfines and compensation orders.

3. Includes value of fines, compensation orders and non-exchequer fines written off.

The data requested are currently being compiled. I will write once this information is available and place a copy of the letter in the Parliament's Reference Centre.

The available information is given in the following table. Data for the year ending March 2003 are not expected to be available until the autumn of 2003. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable in different courts in different years.Value (£) of Fines Imposed by District Courts Outstanding at 31 March 2002

District court	Value Outstanding (£)
Aberdeen City	109,918
Aberdeenshire	54,225
Angus	70,341
Argyll and Bute	23,926
Clackmannanshire	22,870
Dumfries and Galloway	64,090
Dundee City	115,378
East Ayrshire	21,163
East Dunbartonshire	10,561
East Lothian	23,739
East Renfrewshire	8,067
Edinburgh, City of	55,188
Eilean Siar	N/A
Falkirk	136,174
Fife	18,707
Glasgow City	873,025
Highland	147,549
Inverclyde	46,182
Midlothian	21,822
Moray	17,995
North Ayrshire	20,529
North Lanarkshire	N/A
Perth and Kinross	98,337
Renfrewshire	48,009
Scottish Borders	79,664
South Ayrshire	83,080
South Lanarkshire	283,564
Stirling	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	82,225
West Lothian	N/A
Scotland	2,536,328

Note:"N/A" denotes data not available.

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