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Question reference: S3W-36586

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as social work and community service offences there have been in each police force area in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-36575

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) type of crime and (b) police board area of reported crimes listed as disorderly conduct in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-36576

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) type of crime and (b) police board area of reported crimes listed as malicious and reckless conduct in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S3W-36580

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as illegal importation of drugs there have been in each police board area in each of the last 10 years.

Drugs Related Crimes Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force Area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10: Illegal Importation of Drugs

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	3	1	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Fife	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grampian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Lothian and Borders	1	3	0	1	0	16	1	4	6	10
Northern	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	1
Strathclyde	0	1	2	0	1	2	1	2	0	1
Tayside	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1
Scotland	1	4	3	4	1	23	9	9	9	17

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36582

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as supply, possession with intent to supply etc of drugs there have been in each police force area in each of the last 10 years.

Drugs Related Crimes Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force Area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10: Supply, Possession with Intent to Supply etc of Drugs

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	495	631	508	543	551	585	629	675	579	565
Dumfries and Galloway	194	250	345	426	332	274	305	323	264	288
Fife	506	623	657	544	680	555	619	496	779	655
Grampian	567	724	889	594	695	731	730	784	907	729
Lothian and Borders	1,767	1,912	1,948	1,677	1,896	1,884	2,532	2,221	2,128	1,785
Northern	235	353	294	435	287	388	492	449	504	287
Strathclyde	4,710	4,937	4,623	4,293	3,820	4,124	4,357	3,793	3,906	4,263
Tayside	550	700	676	772	817	752	780	587	630	559
Scotland	9,024	10,130	9,940	9,284	9,078	9,293	10,444	9,328	9,697	9,131

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36583

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported crimes listed as possession of drugs there have been in each police force area in each of the last 10 years.

Drugs Related Crimes Recorded by the Police, Broken Down by Police Force Area, from 2000-01 to 2009-10: Possession of drugs

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	974	1,217	1,505	1,536	1,375
Dumfries and Galloway	299	331	417	561	593
Fife	838	1,057	1,265	1,344	1,301
Grampian	1,601	2,050	2,345	2,177	2,309
Lothian and Borders	3,425	3,722	4,366	4,047	3,934
Northern	935	1,338	1,330	1,486	1,422
Strathclyde	13,241	14,934	17,390	19,023	18,721
Tayside	1,157	1,539	1,892	2,289	2,613
Scotland	22,470	26,188	30,510	32,463	32,268
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Central	1,429	1,287	1,312	1,401	1,294
Dumfries and Galloway	663	731	821	683	660
Fife	1,392	1,367	1,272	1,660	1,422
Grampian	2,522	2,122	2,334	2,498	2,082
Lothian and Borders	4,204	3,985	3,501	3,730	3,651
Northern	1,818	2,150	1,930	1,634	1,592
Strathclyde	19,868	17,375	17,462	17,711	16,276
Tayside	2,544	2,312	1,927	2,488	2,202
Scotland	34,440	31,329	30,559	31,805	29,179

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services.

Question reference: S3W-36109

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of remand prisoners has received a custodial disposal in each year since 1999.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The information requested is shown in the following table. This is based on the most recent published information and information for 2009 will be available once the 2009-10 data are published later this year.

Percentage of Remand Admissions followed by a Custodial Disposal in Scottish Prisons: 1999 to 2008

1999	38
2000	39
2001	36
2002	36
2003	36
2004	37
2005	37
2006	37
2007	39
2008	39

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services

Notes

1. About 10% of cases resulted in a cross-border transfer, transfer to medical facility, release on bail or were terminated due to the death of the accused. Figures also include a small number of recall cases.

2. Data are extracted from a live management information system and updated on an on-going basis. The information presented here may therefore differ slightly from information shown previously.

Question reference: S3W-36108

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many remand prisoners there have been in each year since 1999.

I have asked John Ewing,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Number of Remand Admissions to Scottish Prisons: 1999 to 2008

1999	11,207
2000	10,620
2001	12,145
2002	13,904
2003	13,948
2004	14,044
2005	14,610
2006	17,120
2007	16,517
2008	16,262

Source: Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services

Notes

1. Figures are based on remand admissions during the period and will differ from published figures on the number of remand receptions.

2. An admission is defined as an individual spending a period in custody without being liberated into the community, whereas a reception is registered every time there is a change of custodial status. For instance, the case of an individual coming in on remand who then receives a custodial sentence is counted as one admission, but two receptions. An individual coming in on remand on two separate occasions counts as two admissions.

3. Data are extracted from a live management information system and updated on an on-going basis. The information presented here may therefore differ slightly from information shown previously.

Question reference: S3W-36111

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of sentence has been for people given a custodial disposal for fine default in each year since 1999.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The average length of sentence for people given a custodial disposal for fine default was 11 days in each year until 2007-08 when the average length of sentence rose to 12 days. That remained the average figure in 2008-09.

The information requested is given in Table 16 in Prison statistics Scotland: 2008-09. This is available on-line through the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/11/27092125/0.

Question reference: S3W-36052

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers were seconded to the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency as of 1 September 2010, broken down by police force.

On 1 September 2010 there were 205 police officers on secondment at the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. The following table breaks down these secondees by their home police force.

Police Force	Number of Secondees at SCDEA
Central	6
Dumfries and Galloway	9
Fife	9
Grampian	17
Lothian and Borders	39
Northern	6
Strathclyde	107
Tayside	9
British Transport Police	3
Total	205