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Question reference: S2W-15808

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychotherapists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15803

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many occupational therapists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15802

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dietitians are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15801

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many chiropodists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15800

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15810

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many speech and language therapists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15799

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses and midwives are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15806

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-15858

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, recorded crimes and offences reported to procurators fiscal resulted in "no proceedings" in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-10095 on 17 September 2004 which presented this information by procurator fiscal office.

The same information is shown below for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) Areas which correspond to each police force area in each of the complete financial years since 1999. The 11 COPFS Areas were introduced in 2002-03 and replaced six regions which did not correspond to police force areas. For ease of reference, the figures are presented before 2002-03 according to the corresponding new COPFS Area.

The information is not available to present in this format prior to 1999.

The information for 2004-05 will be available by the end of July 2005 and I will write again at that time with the additional information.

The figures given under “Total Reports Received” relate to all reports received by procurators fiscal and include criminal reports, complaints against the police and reports of sudden deaths.

Cases can be marked “no proceedings” by procurators fiscal for a number of reasons including a lack of sufficient admissible evidence, mitigating circumstances, lack of jurisdiction over the offence, the fact that the suspected offence is not a crime or that a civil remedy is more appropriate than criminal proceedings.

COPFS Area FY 1999-2000	Total Reports Received	Total – No Proceedings	No Pro as % of Total
Central	14,168	1,886	13%
Dumfries and Galloway	10,486	1,423	14%
Fife	13,998	2,849	20%
Grampian	22,666	3,462	15%
Highland and Islands¹	13,697	1,513	11%
Lothian and Borders	37,776	5,159	14%
Strathclyde²	151,213	24,857	16%
Tayside	21,714	2,809	13%
COPFS Total	285,718	43,958	15%

COPFS Area FY 2000-01	Total Reports Received	Total – No Proceedings	No Pro as % of Total
Central	15,376	2,439	16%
Dumfries and Galloway	9,456	1,277	14%
Fife	14,921	2,984	20%
Grampian	20,488	1,870	9%
Highland and Islands1	12,943	1,705	13%
Lothian and Borders	39,852	4,545	11%
Strathclyde2	150,834	26,767	18%
Tayside	20,763	2,393	12%
COPFS Total	284,633	43,980	15%

COPFS Area FY 2001-02	Total Reports Received	Total – No Proceedings	No Pro as % of Total
Central	16,817	2,724	16%
Dumfries and Galloway	8,325	1,257	15%
Fife	14,346	2,783	19%
Grampian	20,214	1,998	10%
Highland and Islands1	14,325	1,604	11%
Lothian and Borders	39,640	5,630	14%
Strathclyde2	140,438	24,435	17%
Tayside	21,698	2,085	10%
COPFS Total	275,803	42,516	15%

COPFS Area FY 2002-03	Total Reports Received	Total – No Proceedings	No Pro as % of Total
Central	17,574	2,880	16%
Dumfries and Galloway	8,474	840	10%
Fife	17,500	3,277	19%
Grampian	20,858	2,209	11%
Highland and Islands1	14,578	1,759	12%
Lothian and Borders	40,901	7,383	18%
Strathclyde2	163,175	30,520	19%
Tayside	25,195	2,265	9%
COPFS Total	308,255	51,133	17%

COPFS Area FY 2003-04	Total Reports Received	Total – No Proceedings	No Pro as % of Total
Central	18,746	3,246	17%
Dumfries and Galloway	9,901	1,027	10%
Fife	18,523	2,801	15%
Grampian	20,425	1,628	8%
Highland and Islands1	15,567	1,915	12%
Lothian and Borders	40,655	7,292	18%
Strathclyde2	172,001	21,789	13%
Tayside	29,643	4,004	14%
COPFS Total	325,461	43,702	13%

Notes:

1. Corresponds to Northern Constabulary.

2. Corresponds to Strathclyde Police area and made up of COPFS Areas as follows: Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire, Glasgow and Lanarkshire

Question reference: S2W-15804

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many orthoptists are currently eligible for retirement at 60 and, of these, how many could retire in each of the next three years, broken down by NHS board.