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Question reference: S3W-36580

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as illegal importation of drugs there have been in each police board area in each of the last 10 years.

Drugs Related Crimes Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force Area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10: Illegal Importation of Drugs

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	3	1	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Fife	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grampian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Lothian and Borders	1	3	0	1	0	16	1	4	6	10
Northern	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	1
Strathclyde	0	1	2	0	1	2	1	2	0	1
Tayside	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1
Scotland	1	4	3	4	1	23	9	9	9	17

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36578

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as breach of a sex offender order there have been in each police force area in each of the last 10 years.

Breaches of Sex Offender Orders Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force Area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05¹	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	23
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	0	5	7	15	7	8	3
Fife	4	0	0	2	0	1	8	2	8	8
Grampian	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	26	25	28
Lothian and Borders	0	1	0	1	4	1	5	13	18	18
Northern	0	1	4	6	4	0	0	1	0	0
Strathclyde	1	1	0	0	1	4	0	2	4	20
Tayside	0	0	1	0	3	1	4	8	10	10
Scotland	5	3	5	9	17	14	60	63	79	110

Note: 1. Sex offender orders have been known as sexual offences prevention orders since May 2004, when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 came into force.

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36576

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) type of crime and (b) police board area of reported crimes listed as malicious and reckless conduct in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-36577

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as breach of an antisocial behaviour order there have been in each police board area in each of the last 10 years.

Breaches of Antisocial Behaviour Orders Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	0	0	2	13	28
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	6	29
Fife	2	17	27	31	51
Grampian	0	0	54	45	39
Lothian and Borders	3	7	19	22	62
Northern	0	0	6	18	72
Strathclyde	14	16	22	40	94
Tayside	3	1	0	4	31
Scotland	22	41	130	179	406
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	33	58	77	64	46
Dumfries and Galloway	26	43	27	15	11
Fife	26	62	76	54	33
Grampian	37	72	118	123	188
Lothian and Borders	145	170	141	146	143
Northern	63	42	48	30	21
Strathclyde	86	157	188	162	123
Tayside	31	46	91	82	39
Scotland	447	650	766	676	604

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36575

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) type of crime and (b) police board area of reported crimes listed as disorderly conduct in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-36908

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce has met since its inception.

Question reference: S3W-36052

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers were seconded to the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency as of 1 September 2010, broken down by police force.

On 1 September 2010 there were 205 police officers on secondment at the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. The following table breaks down these secondees by their home police force.

Police Force	Number of Secondees at SCDEA
Central	6
Dumfries and Galloway	9
Fife	9
Grampian	17
Lothian and Borders	39
Northern	6
Strathclyde	107
Tayside	9
British Transport Police	3
Total	205

Question reference: S3W-36110

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have received a custodial sentence for fine default in each year since 1999.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The number of fine defaulters receiving custodial sentences has dropped markedly falling from a figure of 8,358 in 1999-2000 to 1,506 in 2008-09.

1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
8,358	7,566	6,991	7,097	6,888

2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
6,098	6,213	5,963	3,610	1,506

The information requested is given in table 16 in Prison statistics Scotland: 2008-09. This is available online through the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/11/27092125/0.

Question reference: S3W-36109

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of remand prisoners has received a custodial disposal in each year since 1999.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The information requested is shown in the following table. This is based on the most recent published information and information for 2009 will be available once the 2009-10 data are published later this year.

Percentage of Remand Admissions followed by a Custodial Disposal in Scottish Prisons: 1999 to 2008

1999	38
2000	39
2001	36
2002	36
2003	36
2004	37
2005	37
2006	37
2007	39
2008	39

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services

Notes

1. About 10% of cases resulted in a cross-border transfer, transfer to medical facility, release on bail or were terminated due to the death of the accused. Figures also include a small number of recall cases.

2. Data are extracted from a live management information system and updated on an on-going basis. The information presented here may therefore differ slightly from information shown previously.

Question reference: S3W-36112

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average value was of the outstanding fine in cases in which fine defaulters have been subject to a custodial sentence in each year since 1999.

The average value of the outstanding fine in cases in which fine defaulters have been subject to a custodial sentence is as follows:

1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
£251	£241	£259	£261	£276

2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
£288	£277	£277	£286	£339

The information requested is given in Table 16 in Prison statistics Scotland: 2008-09. This is available on-line through the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/11/27092125/0.