To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10095 by Cathy Jamieson on 17 September 2004, what steps it will take to give the reasons why cases reported to the procurators fiscal do not proceed and, in particular, the reasons for cases not proceeding in those sheriff courts where the percentage is higher than the Scottish average. 13% of all cases received by procurators fiscal were marked “no proceedings” between April 2003 and March 2004. 64% of the cases marked “no proceedings” were marked in this way because:· there was insufficient admissible evidence (24% of the cases marked “no proceedings”);· the suspected offence was trivial (27% of the cases marked “no proceedings”), or· there was a delay in reporting the case by the police or other reporting agency (14% of the cases marked “no proceedings”).Twenty procurator fiscal’s offices marked more than 13% of their cases “no proceedings” during this time...