Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-32339

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of medical graduates left Scotland for their first posts in each of the last five years, broken down by medical school and category of graduate.

Question reference: S2W-32434

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 28 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many recipients of single farm payments for land in Scotland were individuals or companies from the rest of the (a) United Kingdom and (b) world in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

The Single Farm Payment Scheme commencedon 1 January 2005 and claims are lodged on 15 May each year. Consequently, informationis only available for the first two years of the scheme. The domiciliary arrangementsof beneficiaries are as follows:

Farm Businesses with a Correspondence Address in:	2005 Scheme		2006 Scheme
Farm Businesses with a Correspondence Address in:	Number	Materiality	Number	Materiality
- Scotland	20,745	99.62%	20,235	99.53%
- Rest of the United Kingdom	71	0.34%	87	0.43%
- Overseas	8	0.04%	8	0.04%
Totals	20,824	100.00%	20,330	100.00%

Question reference: S2W-32192

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much severance pay was provided to political advisers who left the civil service in each year since 1999.

Combined information on the net amount of severance pay provided to special advisersover four periods is provided in thefollowing table. Information cannot be provided on an annual basis to preserveconfidentiality as the number of Special Advisers receiving severance in someyears is low.

Year	1999-2003	2003-07
Net Amount	£154,754	£122,813

The criteria for thecalculation of severance pay are set out in paragraph 14d of the ModelContract for Special Advisers which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 37226).

Question reference: S2W-32535

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number was of people on waiting lists for (a) radiotherapy, (b) chemotherapy and (c) other treatments for prostate cancer in the latest period for which figures are available and what the average waiting time was during that period.

Question reference: S2W-32534

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what proportion of patients with Availability Status Codes have waited (a) under six, (b) six to 12, (c) over 12 and (d) over 24 months for hospital in-patient treatment in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested is not availablecentrally.

The recording of Availability StatusCodes (ASCs) on in-patient/day case discharge data is not mandatory and consistencyof recording will vary across NHSScotland. It is not possible thereforeto establish exactly how many patients had an ASC applied and to distinguish preciselybetween those patients eligible for waiting times standards and those that are ineligible.For this reason, routinely published waiting times figures are based on all in-patients/daycases regardless of whether they have an ASC code.

Census data, provided by NHS boards to ISD Scotland andpublished each quarter, shows the number of patients waiting over specified periodsas at the census date. This census data does identify all patients with an AvailabilityStatus Code and it is therefore possible to report on the number of patients witha guarantee and an Availability Status Code waiting over specified periods on thatparticular census date.

Availability Status Codes willbe abolished at the end of this year and replaced by a new system of defining andmeasuring waiting which will be clearer, more consistent and fairer to patients.The new approach will balance the responsibility of the NHS to provide care andtreatment quickly with patients responsibility to make sure they attend appointmentsand do not change appointments once agreed.

Question reference: S2W-31710

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners sentenced for crimes involving violence have been granted home detention curfews in each of the last five years.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:

Home Detention Curfew (HDC) wasintroduced on 3 July 2006. There are therefore no figures to report before thisdate.

HDC is available only to short-termconvicted prisoners serving sentences of three months or more and less than fouryears. Current evidence of serious violence and/or previous convictions for seriousviolence would indicate a significant risk to the public, and as a result, the SPSwould be unlikely to release such prisoners on HDC.

Question reference: S2W-32281

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) prosecuted, (d) found guilty and (e) given a custodial sentence in cases involving (i) domestic violence, (ii) rape, (iii) violence against the person and (iv) burglary in each year from 1997 to 2006, broken down by police force area.

Data on numbers ofarrests and charges are not held centrally. The recorded crime statistics held centrallydo not contain information about the details of a crime, for instance the relationshipbetween the victim and the accused for crimes of violence. Information requested about the number of instances of burglary recorded since 1997in each police force area wasgiven in the answer to question S2W-29857 on 18 December 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The available informationon recorded crime and on prosecutions and convictions is given in the followingtables. Information in relation to prosecutions arising from incidents of domesticviolence is not separately identifiable in the available statistics.

The statistics dealing with recordedcrime and court proceedings are not directly comparable as a person may be proceededagainst for more than one crime involving more than one victim and there is thepossibility that the crime recorded by the police may be altered in the course ofjudicial proceedings. A crime may be recorded by the police in one year and courtproceedings concluded in a subsequent year. Crimes committed by children aged under16 are also generally dealt with through the children’s hearings system rather thanthe courts.

Crimes of Rape Recorded bythe Police, 1997-98 to 2005-06

Police Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	11	19	4	17	37	50	51	45	62
Dumfries and Galloway	19	27	39	16	20	16	26	20	29
Fife	31	30	43	46	52	73	78	83	88
Grampian	68	68	86	55	52	74	82	70	109
Lothian and Borders	165	146	91	130	138	173	181	240	220
Northern	23	23	38	14	29	30	53	54	46
Strathclyde	214	220	222	213	243	244	315	325	331
Tayside	65	74	63	58	60	83	59	63	90
Scotland	596	607	586	549	631	743	845	900	975

Crimes of Violence Againstthe Person¹ Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2005-06

Police Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central	530	591	517	602	809	810	837	828	778
Dumfries and Galloway	375	284	240	241	262	283	323	271	279
Fife	541	550	744	874	963	771	694	707	709
Grampian	960	1,034	1,225	1,519	1,327	1,346	1,290	1,290	1,237
Lothian and Borders	2,115	2,201	2,642	2,809	2,673	3,110	2,856	2,736	2,588
Northern	437	516	545	660	665	654	655	730	771
Strathclyde	8,793	10,412	11,183	10,933	12,475	13,137	12,966	13,165	12,667
Tayside	1,290	1,208	1,042	963	829	693	688	814	778
Scotland	15,041	16,796	18,138	18,601	20,003	20,804	20,309	20,541	19,807

PersonsProceeded Against for Rape², 1997-98 to 2005-06

Police Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central
Proceeded against	3	3	10	3	1	4	1	8	9
Charge proved	-	3	2	1	-	2	1	1	3
Custodial sentence	-	2	2	1	-	2	1	1	3
Dumfries and Galloway
Proceeded against	1	-	3	2	2	1	2	3	3
Charge proved	1	-	1	2	1	1	-	-	1
Custodial sentence	1	-	1	2	1	1	-	-	1
Fife
Proceeded against	6	16	5	2	8	7	3	11	12
Charge proved	4	10	1	1	5	5	2	10	5
Custodial sentence	3	9	1	1	5	4	1	10	4
Grampian
Proceeded against	3	9	6	2	4	4	5	6	3
Charge proved	-	5	5	1	2	2	2	3	1
Custodial sentence	-	5	5	1	1	2	2	3	1
Lothian and Borders
Proceeded against	14	14	13	14	19	15	19	21	13
Charge proved	9	5	7	9	12	8	9	11	3
Custodial sentence	8	5	7	8	10	7	8	10	3
Northern
Proceeded against	3	1	3	-	3	5	3	8	6
Charge proved	2	1	3	-	3	4	2	3	4
Custodial sentence	2	1	3	-	3	4	2	3	4
Strathclyde
Proceeded against	26	18	13	24	24	19	34	30	34
Charge proved	10	12	8	11	20	14	16	15	18
Custodial sentence	10	11	7	9	18	14	15	15	17
Tayside
Proceeded against	5	5	2	5	7	4	12	7	8
Charge proved	4	1	-	3	3	2	6	3	3
Custodial sentence	4	1	-	2	3	2	6	3	3
Scotland⁽³⁾
Proceeded against	61	66	55	52	68	59	80	94	88
Charge proved	30	37	27	28	46	38	38	46	38
Custodial sentence	28	34	26	24	41	36	35	45	36

Persons Proceeded Againstfor Violence Against the Person^1,2, 1997-98 to 2005-06

Police Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central
Proceeded against	160	137	160	178	187	206	251	265	206
Charge proved	124	112	122	130	134	169	189	212	153
Custodial sentence	44	38	28	35	35	55	58	63	43
Dumfries and Galloway
Proceeded against	105	108	92	92	98	113	101	126	117
Charge proved	84	76	69	75	77	91	73	97	87
Custodial sentence	26	15	24	28	32	32	27	31	26
Fife
Proceeded against	169	135	149	149	219	195	164	153	208
Charge proved	131	97	117	112	162	161	124	121	167
Custodial sentence	48	34	33	39	49	43	38	42	59
Grampian
Proceeded against	230	275	232	196	240	239	307	330	373
Charge proved	191	222	175	154	204	202	247	270	332
Custodial sentence	38	37	46	37	58	38	60	61	87
Lothian and Borders
Proceeded against	597	531	464	560	587	759	750	714	694
Charge proved	488	453	368	465	475	606	612	575	563
Custodial sentence	159	158	127	188	140	206	213	200	171
Northern
Proceeded against	134	111	114	115	116	135	161	159	154
Charge proved	101	83	92	104	100	109	129	133	127
Custodial sentence	31	26	35	40	31	28	48	45	46
Strathclyde
Proceeded against	2,982	2,793	3,090	3,372	3,585	3,133	3,626	4,105	3,842
Charge proved	2,166	2,081	2,290	2,401	2,674	2,822	3,141	3,552	3,247
Custodial sentence	735	699	813	862	916	1,035	1,008	1,099	1,080
Tayside
Proceeded against	395	401	354	400	403	413	365	411	455
Charge proved	264	258	230	272	270	309	260	294	350
Custodial sentence	74	90	71	67	85	110	72	85	133
Scotland⁽³⁾
Proceeded against	4,772	4,491	4,655	5,063	5,435	5,193	5,726	6,264	6,050
Charge proved	3,549	3,382	3,463	3,714	4,096	4,469	4,776	5,254	5,027
Custodial sentence	1,155	1,097	1,177	1,297	1,346	1,547	1,525	1,626	1,645

Persons Proceeded Againstfor Housebreaking², 1997-98 to 2005-06

Police Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Central
Proceeded against	193	152	152	141	183	193	168	191	94
Charge proved	148	115	121	126	157	167	140	151	77
Custodial sentence	61	58	47	57	72	87	73	54	29
Dumfries and Galloway
Proceeded against	133	137	103	137	118	108	106	80	79
Charge proved	110	123	85	118	103	92	89	75	71
Custodial sentence	45	71	41	60	67	52	38	44	49
Fife
Proceeded against	372	358	347	334	348	314	275	278	220
Charge proved	331	324	311	301	312	281	250	252	204
Custodial sentence	172	151	156	121	113	89	115	116	75
Grampian
Proceeded against	553	571	485	459	470	369	387	340	277
Charge proved	494	503	420	414	406	333	358	312	256
Custodial sentence	239	195	172	209	179	145	155	141	99
Lothian and Borders
Proceeded against	499	404	402	404	400	486	412	376	363
Charge proved	450	361	354	357	352	425	359	334	324
Custodial sentence	179	144	158	175	193	206	176	157	136
Northern
Proceeded against	138	125	111	92	96	98	115	88	94
Charge proved	115	112	93	84	90	86	105	76	81
Custodial sentence	31	32	29	29	39	20	37	27	28
Strathclyde
Proceeded against	1,647	1,705	1,628	1,396	1,391	1,218	1,164	1,149	876
Charge proved	1,249	1,333	1,286	1,084	1,079	1,114	1,017	982	767
Custodial sentence	622	723	767	659	627	607	541	484	364
Tayside
Proceeded against	396	288	273	242	238	299	256	231	254
Charge proved	277	200	190	192	173	254	190	191	208
Custodial sentence	110	72	99	95	84	130	78	94	104
Scotland⁽³⁾
Proceeded against	3,931	3,740	3,501	3,205	3,244	3,085	2,883	2,733	2,258
Charge proved	3,174	3,071	2,860	2,676	2,672	2,752	2,508	2,373	1,989
Custodial sentence	1,459	1,446	1,469	1,405	1,374	1,336	1,213	1,117	884

Notes:

1. For the purposes of this analysis,violence against the person has been defined to include the crime categories ofnon-sexual crimes of violence (excluding robbery), endangering rail passengers,reckless driving at common law, supply of glue sniffing kits and offensive weapons

2. Where main offence. The figuresfor persons proceeded against may exclude some acquittals due to recording delays.

3. Totals may include some caseswhere police force is unknown.

Question reference: S2W-32279

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug treatment and testing orders were (a) issued to and (b) breached by offenders aged 18 and under in each year since 2001, broken down by local authority area.

The available information ondrug treatment and testing orders imposed by Scottish courts on offenders aged 18and under is given in the following table. Information on breaches of drug treatmentand testing orders by age of offender is not included in the statistics collectedcentrally. Figures on the total number of breach applications by local authorityarea in 2004-05 and 2005-06 can be found on the Scottish Executive’s website at:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubSocialWork.

Drug Treatment and TestingOrders Imposed on Persons Aged 18 and Under¹, by Local Authority Area,2001-02 to 2005-06

Local Authority Area²	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Angus	-	-	4	-	-
Dumfries and Galloway	-	-	-	-	2
Dundee City	-	-	-	5	-
Edinburgh, City of	-	-	9	8	7
Fife	1	8	1	-	3
Glasgow City	2	-	-	-	-
Scottish Borders	-	-	-	-	5
Scotland	3	8	14	13	17

Notes:

1. Concurrent orders are countedseparately in these statistics.

2. Proxied by location of courtimposing the order.

Question reference: S2W-32325

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-31895 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 March 2007, whether it will list the 10 local authority areas with the (a) biggest and (b) smallest (i) reductions and (ii) increases in the number of (A) serious assaults, (B) robberies, (C) crimes of indecency, (d) rapes and attempted rapes, (e) indecent assaults and (f) cases of lewd and indecent behaviour since 1996-97.

The figures requested are shownin the following tables:

Recorded Crimes of Serious Assaultby Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	0	15	15	-
Shetland Islands	0	8	8	-
Highland	51	228	177	347.1
Fife	96	260	164	170.8
Orkney Islands	5	10	5	100.0
Clackmannanshire	32	47	15	46.9
City of Glasgow	1,449	1,954	505	34.9
Aberdeenshire	98	120	22	22.4
West Dunbartonshire	177	215	38	21.5
Renfrewshire	279	300	21	7.5
East Ayrshire	149	156	7	4.7
Moray	45	47	2	4.4
Midlothian	59	61	2	3.4
Dundee City	143	147	4	2.8
South Ayrshire	139	141	2	1.4
North Ayrshire	227	228	1	0.4
Aberdeen City	175	173	-2	-1.1
East Dunbartonshire	100	98	-2	-2.0
Inverclyde	162	157	-5	-3.1
Dumfries and Galloway	110	106	-4	-3.6
Stirling	57	53	-4	-7.0
East Renfrewshire	60	55	-5	-8.3
South Lanarkshire	497	443	-54	-10.9
Perth and Kinross	62	55	-7	-11.3
North Lanarkshire	534	458	-76	-14.2
West Lothian	163	138	-25	-15.3
Argyll and Bute	107	88	-19	-17.8
Falkirk	128	96	-32	-25.0
Angus	64	45	-19	-29.7
Scottish Borders	88	57	-31	-35.2
City of Edinburgh	552	330	-222	-40.2
East Lothian	62	31	-31	-50.0
All Scotland	5,870	6,320	450	7.7

Recorded Crimes of Robbery byLocal Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
Shetland Islands	0	1	1	-
Moray	4	20	16	400.0
Fife	108	183	75	69.4
East Lothian	13	21	8	61.5
Aberdeenshire	20	32	12	60.0
Falkirk	24	32	8	33.3
Highland	32	39	7	21.9
West Lothian	69	71	2	2.9
Aberdeen City	183	188	5	2.7
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0.0
Stirling	42	38	-4	-9.5
Argyll and Bute	19	17	-2	-10.5
North Ayrshire	109	97	-12	-11.0
Dumfries and Galloway	43	37	-6	-14.0
East Ayrshire	68	58	-10	-14.7
City of Edinburgh	696	556	-140	-20.1
North Lanarkshire	228	172	-56	-24.6
Scottish Borders	15	11	-4	-26.7
Midlothian	26	19	-7	-26.9
South Ayrshire	56	38	-18	-32.1
Dundee City	160	107	-53	-33.1
South Lanarkshire	261	173	-88	-33.7
East Renfrewshire	71	44	-27	-38.0
City of Glasgow	2,004	1,200	-804	-40.1
Clackmannanshire	32	19	-13	-40.6
West Dunbartonshire	148	85	-63	-42.6
Angus	13	7	-6	-46.2
Renfrewshire	362	192	-170	-47.0
Perth and Kinross	50	20	-30	-60.0
Inverclyde	189	57	-132	-69.8
East Dunbartonshire	69	19	-50	-72.5
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	4	0	-4	-100.0
All Scotland	5,118	3,553	-1,565	-30.6

Recorded Crimes of Indecency¹by Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	5	31	26	520.0
Dumfries and Galloway	39	136	97	248.7
Clackmannanshire	24	81	57	237.5
Shetland Islands	13	41	28	215.4
Falkirk	79	197	118	149.4
Moray	85	199	114	134.1
Fife	235	479	244	103.8
Midlothian	68	134	66	97.1
Perth and Kinross	76	130	54	71.1
Highland	159	258	99	62.3
Stirling	82	126	44	53.7
Argyll and Bute	62	92	30	48.4
North Ayrshire	140	198	58	41.4
Aberdeenshire	172	242	70	40.7
West Lothian	137	188	51	37.2
West Dunbartonshire	65	88	23	35.4
East Ayrshire	77	103	26	33.8
North Lanarkshire	220	288	68	30.9
Scottish Borders	83	105	22	26.5
Aberdeen City	421	525	104	24.7
East Lothian	72	89	17	23.6
East Renfrewshire	31	30	-1	-3.2
Dundee City	306	296	-10	-3.3
Renfrewshire	124	115	-9	-7.3
South Ayrshire	101	93	-8	-7.9
South Lanarkshire	193	177	-16	-8.3
Orkney Islands	10	9	-1	-10.0
City of Edinburgh	794	654	-140	-17.6
City of Glasgow	1,755	1,293	-462	-26.3
Angus	139	97	-42	-30.2
East Dunbartonshire	47	26	-21	-44.7
Inverclyde	127	38	-89	-70.1
All Scotland	5,941	6,558	617	10.4

Note: 1 All group 2 crimes ofindecency recorded by the police, that is total of rape and attempted rape, indecentassault, lewd and indecent behaviour and all other crimes of indecency.

Recorded Crimes of Rape and AttemptedRape by Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	0	4	4	-
East Renfrewshire	1	7	6	600.0
Falkirk	5	33	28	560.0
Dumfries and Galloway	5	32	27	540.0
Clackmannanshire	2	10	8	400.0
Fife	22	101	79	359.1
Moray	8	33	25	312.5
West Lothian	15	48	33	220.0
East Lothian	9	26	17	188.9
Stirling	11	27	16	145.5
Perth and Kinross	12	29	17	141.7
Midlothian	10	24	14	140.0
Highland	20	47	27	135.0
North Lanarkshire	24	54	30	125.0
East Ayrshire	9	20	11	122.2
North Ayrshire	18	36	18	100.0
Orkney Islands	2	4	2	100.0
Renfrewshire	10	19	9	90.0
South Lanarkshire	22	40	18	81.8
South Ayrshire	12	21	9	75.0
Aberdeenshire	22	37	15	68.2
City of Glasgow	108	175	67	62.0
Angus	18	26	8	44.4
Argyll and Bute	9	13	4	44.4
Scottish Borders	18	26	8	44.4
Aberdeen City	39	56	17	43.6
City of Edinburgh	108	137	29	26.9
Shetland Islands	1	1	0	0.0
West Dunbartonshire	11	11	0	0.0
Dundee City	57	51	-6	-10.5
Inverclyde	17	9	-8	-47.1
East Dunbartonshire	8	4	-4	-50.0
All Scotland	633	1,161	528	83.4

Recorded Crimes of Indecent Assaultby Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
East Dunbartonshire	5	14	9	180.0
Clackmannanshire	10	26	16	160.0
Moray	18	46	28	155.6
West Dunbartonshire	12	27	15	125.0
West Lothian	19	42	23	121.1
Fife	55	120	65	118.2
East Ayrshire	12	26	14	116.7
Falkirk	20	42	22	110.0
Shetland Islands	4	8	4	100.0
Aberdeenshire	21	40	19	90.5
North Ayrshire	28	49	21	75.0
Stirling	18	31	13	72.2
Highland	32	55	23	71.9
South Ayrshire	16	27	11	68.8
Argyll and Bute	19	32	13	68.4
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	3	5	2	66.7
North Lanarkshire	51	70	19	37.3
City of Glasgow	206	278	72	35.0
Scottish Borders	20	26	6	30.0
East Lothian	17	22	5	29.4
Perth and Kinross	32	38	6	18.8
Dundee City	58	68	10	17.2
Renfrewshire	34	38	4	11.8
Aberdeen City	80	88	8	10.0
Dumfries and Galloway	12	13	1	8.3
South Lanarkshire	53	53	0	0.0
City of Edinburgh	176	163	-13	-7.4
Angus	24	22	-2	-8.3
Midlothian	27	22	-5	-18.5
East Renfrewshire	9	6	-3	-33.3
Orkney Islands	2	1	-1	-50.0
Inverclyde	29	10	-19	-65.5
All Scotland	1,122	1,508	386	34.4

Recorded Crimesof Lewd and Indecent Behaviour by Local Authority,

1996-97 and2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	Difference (%)
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	2	20	18	900.0
Dumfries and Galloway	15	83	68	453.3
Clackmannanshire	9	39	30	333.3
Midlothian	25	83	58	232.0
Falkirk	47	106	59	125.5
Stirling	30	67	37	123.3
Perth and Kinross	23	50	27	117.4
Shetland Islands	8	17	9	112.5
Argyll and Bute	20	41	21	105.0
Aberdeen City	94	177	83	88.3
Moray	49	90	41	83.7
Fife	134	220	86	64.2
Highland	71	113	42	59.2
Scottish Borders	37	48	11	29.7
Aberdeenshire	102	129	27	26.5
North Ayrshire	85	98	13	15.3
North Lanarkshire	113	130	17	15.0
East Ayrshire	49	48	-1	-2.0
West Lothian	87	80	-7	-8.0
East Lothian	39	35	-4	-10.3
East Renfrewshire	18	15	-3	-16.7
City of Glasgow	401	329	-72	-18.0
South Ayrshire	46	37	-9	-19.6
West Dunbartonshire	39	31	-8	-20.5
Dundee City	159	126	-33	-20.8
South Lanarkshire	106	75	-31	-29.2
Renfrewshire	72	46	-26	-36.1
City of Edinburgh	425	253	-172	-40.5
Angus	82	41	-41	-50.0
East Dunbartonshire	25	6	-19	-76.0
Inverclyde	75	17	-58	-77.3
Orkney Islands	6	1	-5	-83.3
All Scotland	2,493	2,651	158	6.3

Question reference: S2W-32326

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-31895 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 March 2007, whether it will list the 10 local authority areas with the (a) biggest and (b) smallest (i) reductions and (ii) increases in the number of (A) crimes against public justice, (B) crimes of handling an offensive weapon and (C) drug-related crimes since 1996-97.

The requested information isshown in the following tables. “Drug-relatedcrime” has been taken to mean specifically drug crimes (possession, supply, manufacture or trafficking).

Recorded Crimes AgainstPublic Justice by Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	% Difference
Scottish Borders	117	401	284	242.7
Moray	150	451	301	200.7
Clackmannanshire	138	371	233	168.8
City of Edinburgh	1,047	2,457	1,410	134.7
Fife	740	1,693	953	128.8
Stirling	256	582	326	127.3
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	39	84	45	115.4
Perth and Kinross	323	677	354	109.6
West Lothian	283	590	307	108.5
North Lanarkshire	920	1,868	948	103.0
West Dunbartonshire	352	695	343	97.4
Inverclyde	231	444	213	92.2
Dumfries and Galloway	469	899	430	91.7
Midlothian	189	341	152	80.4
Dundee City	762	1,360	598	78.5
Falkirk	507	863	356	70.2
South Lanarkshire	880	1,495	615	69.9
East Lothian	121	204	83	68.6
East Ayrshire	299	494	195	65.2
North Ayrshire	407	638	231	56.8
Argyll and Bute	273	412	139	50.9
Renfrewshire	494	734	240	48.6
Angus	329	483	154	46.8
Highland	705	1,019	314	44.5
City of Glasgow	4,437	6,072	1,635	36.8
Aberdeenshire	384	508	124	32.3
South Ayrshire	307	394	87	28.3
Aberdeen City	764	969	205	26.8
East Renfrewshire	153	191	38	24.8
East Dunbartonshire	165	203	38	23.0
Orkney Islands	29	35	6	20.7
Shetland Islands	50	41	-9	-18.0
All Scotland	16,320	27,668	11,348	69.5

The category of “crimes againstpublic justice” includes breaches of conditions of bail. The increase in this categorypartially reflects an increase in the granting (and enforcement of) additional bailconditions in order to provide safeguards over and above the standard bail conditions(for example: exclusions from an area/address in domestic abuse cases, curfew ordersand electronic monitoring as a condition of bail). The number of these crimes hasbeen increasing steadily over the last eight years.

Recorded Crimes of HandlingOffensive Weapons by Local Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	% Difference
Moray	45	110	65	144.4
Scottish Borders	45	103	58	128.9
Shetland Islands	9	19	10	111.1
Aberdeen City	151	309	158	104.6
Clackmannanshire	44	89	45	102.3
City of Edinburgh	399	748	349	87.5
West Dunbartonshire	173	324	151	87.3
Inverclyde	133	247	114	85.7
Midlothian	59	106	47	79.7
South Lanarkshire	334	586	252	75.4
North Ayrshire	199	345	146	73.4
North Lanarkshire	387	669	282	72.9
City of Glasgow	1,811	3,112	1,301	71.8
Highland	171	282	111	64.9
West Lothian	114	187	73	64.0
East Dunbartonshire	85	129	44	51.8
East Ayrshire	166	240	74	44.6
Renfrewshire	286	401	115	40.2
Stirling	90	125	35	38.9
Aberdeenshire	127	169	42	33.1
East Lothian	52	66	14	26.9
Orkney Islands	8	10	2	25.0
Argyll and Bute	84	103	19	22.6
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	16	19	3	18.8
Falkirk	152	164	12	7.9
South Ayrshire	142	145	3	2.1
Fife	305	273	-32	-10.5
East Renfrewshire	85	76	-9	-10.6
Dumfries and Galloway	170	137	-33	-19.4
Angus	118	74	-44	-37.3
Dundee City	347	186	-161	-46.4
Perth and Kinross	206	75	-131	-63.6
All Scotland	6,513	9,628	3,115	47.8

Recorded Drug Crimes byLocal Authority, 1996-97 and 2005-06

	1996-97	2005-06	Difference	% Difference
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	74	230	156	210.8
South Lanarkshire	1,000	2,589	1,589	158.9
Dundee City	678	1,582	904	133.3
Shetland Islands	49	113	64	130.6
East Lothian	154	347	193	125.3
East Ayrshire	482	1,065	583	121.0
North Ayrshire	632	1,361	729	115.3
East Dunbartonshire	187	399	212	113.4
Perth and Kinross	505	1,063	558	110.5
Falkirk	489	1,016	527	107.8
Scottish Borders	390	806	416	106.7
Argyll and Bute	336	655	319	94.9
North Lanarkshire	1,616	3,067	1,451	89.8
Stirling	334	629	295	88.3
Moray	230	432	202	87.8
City of Edinburgh	1,898	3,550	1,652	87.0
West Lothian	599	1,089	490	81.8
South Ayrshire	490	871	381	77.8
East Renfrewshire	181	320	139	76.8
West Dunbartonshire	638	1,089	451	70.7
City of Glasgow	6,379	10,741	4,362	68.4
Clackmannanshire	231	388	157	68.0
Renfrewshire	693	1,140	447	64.5
Highland	1,155	1,856	701	60.7
Angus	451	678	227	50.3
Aberdeen City	1,354	1,992	638	47.1
Inverclyde	701	932	231	33.0
Midlothian	317	412	95	30.0
Dumfries and Galloway	758	949	191	25.2
Orkney Islands	24	30	6	25.0
Fife	1,848	1,992	144	7.8
Aberdeenshire	881	864	-17	-1.9
All Scotland	25,754	44,247	18,493	71.8

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