Question reference: S6W-09381
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 28 June 2022
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Current status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 25 July 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people did not respond to the 2011 census and, of those, how many people received a fine for not doing so.
Answer
Decisions regarding prosecutions remain a matter for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
The 2011 census had a response rate of approximately 94%. Of the 6% of non-responding households, approximately 1,800 cases were put forward for non-compliance action which resulted in 900 completed questionnaires being returned. Following Crown Office advice, five cases were subsequently reported to the Procurator Fiscal and two cases resulted in prosecution.