To ask the Scottish Executive how many arrest warrants were not executed by the police in each of the last five years, broken down by police board area; in how many of these cases was the reason for the warrant not being executed due to a delay in its processing so that it overran its time limit; how many prosecutions were dropped, or sentences quashed, as a consequence, and in how many of these cases were the victims informed of the reason for the case being abandoned and apologised to for such a situation arising.