Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-15914

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13580 by Cathy Jamieson on 28 January 2005, how many convictions for assault of a police officer there were in each year from 1994 to 2004, broken down by police force area

The available information, which relates to convictions under section 41(1)(a) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967, is given in the table. This section of the 1967 Act provides that any person who “assaults, resists, obstructs, molests or hinders a constable…” shall be guilty of an offence. Offences which specifically involve an assault on a police officer can not generally be identified separately from other section 41(1)(a) offences in the data held centrally. Similarly, other assaults on police officers which may result in other charges such as serious assault or attempted murder can not be identified separately in the available statistics.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for an Offence Under Section 41(1)(a) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967¹, by Police Force Area, 1994-2003

Police Force Area	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Central	175	183	175	120	92	107	111	144	177	175
Dumfries and Galloway	93	77	65	73	62	56	59	64	59	93
Fife	176	147	145	165	143	101	113	142	140	160
Grampian	298	324	262	274	271	199	163	201	246	309
Lothian and Borders	343	409	387	388	455	381	380	382	417	419
Northern	184	171	150	121	135	124	142	166	152	190
Strathclyde	1,454	1,425	1,606	1,621	1,396	1,112	969	1,066	1,177	1,384
Tayside	146	194	174	231	258	264	209	237	323	305
Scotland	2,869	2,930	2,964	2,993	2,812	2,344	2,146	2,402	2,691	3,035

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15812

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7842 by Elish Angiolini QC on 25 February 2005, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the table.

The original answer to question S2W-7842 has been corrected to remove the error in the final column. A copy of the corrected table is as follows:

Financial Year 2002-03

Police Force	Number of Cases	No Proceedings on Account of Delay by Reporting Agency	Proceeded to Trial: Evidence led from Witnesses	Reports Resulting in a Conviction	Pending Cases
Central Scotland Police	14,879	264	407	6,547	647
Dumfries and Galloway Police	7,640	60	189	3,718	319
Fife Constabulary	14,776	221	386	6,135	1,173
Grampian Police	18,019	213	552	10,365	1,316
Lothian and Borders Police	34,934	1,482	1,484	15,485	1,664
Northern Constabulary	13,437	142	464	6,534	556
Strathclyde Police	148,175	12,921	5,674	46,661	13,071
Tayside Police	23,115	97	970	11,908	1,527
British Transport Police	1,692	9	40	466	134
Other	64	2	8	10	8
Total	276,731	15,411	10,174	107,829	20,415

Notes:

1. Delay by reporting agency figures now also include those marked no-pro time-bar as being time-barred upon receipt.

2. “Reports Resulting in a Conviction” includes cases where accused pleaded guilty before trial.

3. ”Pending Cases” includes cases which do not have a status of “closed” in our case management system as at 1 June 2004. It includes cases where criminal proceedings have started but not yet concluded, cases where there is an outstanding warrant and cases which have resulted in conviction but the sentence has been deferred or proceedings have been re-activated because of a breach of community order or a current appeal. It is therefore possible that a case will also be recorded in another column in this table.

Question reference: S2W-15825

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13957 by Cathy Jamieson on 9 February 2005, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the tables.

The following tables have been updated to take account of the finalised data now available for 2003-04. Yearly totals for Scotland are not comparable due to data being unavailable for different courts in different years. The footnotes to the table provide additional information on the limitations of the data.

Number of District Court Fines Fully Remitted, 1999-2000 to 2003-04

District court	1999-2000¹	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen City	146	33	94	52	157
Aberdeenshire	61	28	79	18	26
Angus	27	6	5	3	20
Argyll and Bute	162	60	54	38	50
Clackmannanshire	12	1	3	2	1
Dumfries and Galloway	28	-	11	9	N/A
Dundee City	38	25	30	52	25
East Ayrshire	116	13	68	-	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	16	6	5	-	2
East Lothian	-	5	2	4	5
East Renfrewshire	-	2	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	408	N/A	240	175	107
Eilean Siar	-	19	N/A	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	42	14	11	5	25
Fife	225	117	137	57	N/A
Glasgow City	385	141	43	79	17
Highland	180	125	19	27	74
Inverclyde	31	23	31	28	33
Midlothian	2	5	12	10	16
Moray	2	1	19	4	29
North Ayrshire	59	13	24	24	18
North Lanarkshire	425	250²	645³	656⁴	69 ⁵
Perth and Kinross	80	126	79	211⁶	40
Renfrewshire	255	143	49	61	131
Scottish Borders	41	5	5	1	2
South Ayrshire	2	6	44	30	129
South Lanarkshire	106	41	21	24	11
Stirling	32	40	N/A	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	436	55	22	78	22
West Lothian	36	154	154	37	69
Scotland	3,353	1,457	1,906	1,685	1,078

Notes:

"N/A" denotes data not available.

1. Includes partly remitted fines – a separate breakdown of fully and partly remitted fines was not collected for 1999-2000.

2. Coatbridge only.

3. Includes fully and partly remitted fines, registered fines and compensation orders.

4. Includes fully and partly remitted fines; excludes partly remitted fines for Coatbridge; includes remitted registered fines and compensation orders for Motherwell.

5. Motherwell only.

6. Includes partly remitted fines.

Number of District Court Fines Partly Remitted, 2000-01 to 2003-04¹

District Court	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen City	26	17	21	113
Aberdeenshire	21	31	13	6
Angus	15	10	4	11
Argyll and Bute	25	22	17	21
Clackmannanshire	2	4	-	2
Dumfries and Galloway	12	6	3	N/A
Dundee City	69	-	70	31
East Ayrshire	8	37	-	N/A
East Dunbartonshire	5	2	2	-
East Lothian	1	1	-	-
East Renfrewshire	3	-	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	N/A	38	10	13
Eilean Siar	-	N/A	N/A	N/A
Falkirk	10	6	8	34
Fife	38	42	34	N/A
Glasgow City	40	39	50	23
Highland	103	18	3	39
Inverclyde	9	19	12	18
Midlothian	-	5	6	4
Moray	-	1	-	13
North Ayrshire	36	36	36	30
North Lanarkshire	10²	N/A³	N/A³	N/A
Perth and Kinross	57	N/A	N/A³	26
Renfrewshire	129	57	59	104
Scottish Borders	1	3	3	1
South Ayrshire	2	46	18	114
South Lanarkshire	36	7	12	6
Stirling	7	N/A	N/A	N/A
West Dunbartonshire	26	22	30	12
West Lothian	4	6	25	48
Scotland	695	475	436	669

Notes:

“N/A” denotes data not available.

1. The numbers of fines which were partly remitted in 1999-2000 are included with the number of fully remitted fines in the first table – a separate breakdown of fully and partly remitted fines was not collected for that year.

2. Coatbridge only.

3. See footnote to corresponding figure of fully remitted fines in the first table.

Question reference: S2W-15852

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for the crimes of dishonesty (a) housebreaking, (b) theft by opening a lockfast place, (c) theft of a motor vehicle, (d) shoplifting, (e) other theft, (f) fraud and (g) other offences in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following tables.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selected Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997- 2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Housebreaking
Central	159	102	139	109	160	154	150
Dumfries and Galloway	99	118	105	109	104	97	86
Fife	347	297	330	292	334	268	275
Grampian	497	469	470	429	415	351	363
Lothian and Borders	486	369	331	388	347	416	353
Northern	125	106	104	71	102	76	103
Strathclyde	1,288	1,293	1,358	1,096	1,075	1,122	1,004
Tayside	274	223	184	192	174	251	198
Total	3,275	2,977	3,021	2,686	2,711	2,735	2,532
Theft by Opening a Lockfast Place
Central	113	91	81	55	66	73	73
Dumfries and Galloway	26	23	18	28	25	17	39
Fife	192	159	158	147	135	134	120
Grampian	182	192	141	171	137	134	122
Lothian and Borders	320	269	228	175	242	202	171
Northern	42	39	33	40	28	37	30
Strathclyde	1,075	928	892	768	765	757	633
Tayside	142	101	107	113	103	118	101
Total	2,092	1,802	1,658	1,497	1,501	1,472	1,289
Theft of a Motor Vehicle
Central	89	85	67	77	60	72	55
Dumfries and Galloway	34	28	24	24	31	54	64
Fife	119	126	112	114	148	106	100
Grampian	169	178	168	172	137	113	124
Lothian and Borders	349	290	223	218	217	261	222
Northern	46	40	48	56	65	57	78
Strathclyde	1,135	948	858	692	594	635	568
Tayside	205	158	142	96	124	128	84
Total	2,146	1,853	1,642	1,449	1,376	1,426	1,295
Shoplifting
Central	270	257	391	477	641	595	481
Dumfries and Galloway	93	109	135	195	176	212	234
Fife	306	384	451	480	518	446	424
Grampian	947	1,133	803	814	894	969	852
Lothian and Borders	1,286	1,258	1,166	1,194	1,172	1,335	1,173
Northern	217	213	216	163	208	254	239
Strathclyde	3,185	3,586	3,777	3,412	3,728	4,311	3,802
Tayside	890	671	710	684	786	809	788
Total	7,194	7,611	7,649	7,419	8,123	8,931	7,993
Other Theft
Central	385	292	281	245	260	271	212
Dumfries and Galloway	224	243	201	184	180	199	140
Fife	348	311	335	270	273	253	242
Grampian	558	552	457	468	441	363	397
Lothian and Borders	847	828	638	637	636	629	525
Northern	284	209	176	172	169	175	194
Strathclyde	2,899	2,927	2,819	2,198	2,019	1,681	1,435
Tayside	415	339	353	319	306	305	342
Total	5,960	5,701	5,260	4,493	4,284	3,876	3,487
Fraud
Central	77	75	81	66	76	88	106
Dumfries and Galloway	85	65	78	48	46	52	53
Fife	152	106	90	108	110	80	80
Grampian	213	234	151	171	156	134	132
Lothian and Borders	395	435	292	270	288	378	335
Northern	76	92	103	69	60	71	71
Strathclyde	870	829	726	581	619	528	525
Tayside	142	138	114	145	135	120	120
Total	2,010	1,974	1,635	1,458	1,490	1,451	1,422
Other Dishonesty Offences
Central	103	137	100	82	120	117	91
Dumfries and Galloway	82	62	61	34	46	53	51
Fife	141	109	106	87	129	100	98
Grampian	351	353	307	189	196	230	195
Lothian and Borders	412	348	328	310	327	344	258
Northern	95	85	74	51	64	70	80
Strathclyde	1,508	1,474	1,242	925	872	814	730
Tayside	297	242	210	186	207	185	252
Total	2,989	2,810	2,428	1,864	1,961	1,913	1,755

Notes:

1. Were main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15854

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for (a) crimes against public justice, (b) handling an offensive weapon and (c) drugs in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following tables.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selected Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997-2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Crimes Against Public Justice
Central	385	234	322	415	508	443	378
Dumfries and Galloway	156	111	139	142	151	103	115
Fife	414	445	416	312	331	237	262
Grampian	486	435	371	307	364	444	492
Lothian and Borders	656	728	636	652	605	590	546
Northern	112	85	101	93	129	143	180
Strathclyde	2,646	2,216	2,072	1,908	1,946	2,055	2,049
Tayside	491	484	565	1016	1283	983	1073
Total	5,346	4,738	4,622	4,845	5,317	4,998	5,095
Handling an Offensive Weapon
Central	62	53	50	54	70	62	85
Dumfries and Galloway	48	37	47	35	32	44	50
Fife	50	33	43	41	74	55	58
Grampian	87	97	74	63	118	102	111
Lothian and Borders	278	271	211	204	278	325	254
Northern	43	43	34	31	46	46	53
Strathclyde	1,482	1,397	1,499	1,680	1,939	1,821	2,048
Tayside	144	131	122	130	138	134	140
Total	2,194	2,062	2,080	2,238	2,695	2,589	2,799
Drugs
Central	283	244	259	235	342	373	452
Dumfries and Galloway	256	183	172	130	97	133	146
Fife	367	325	296	148	160	207	174
Grampian	889	861	656	455	613	564	743
Lothian and Borders	969	841	796	738	776	567	587
Northern	415	382	311	267	349	384	412
Strathclyde	3,400	3,644	3,442	2,984	2,931	3,052	4,009
Tayside	448	447	507	469	468	521	582
Total	7,027	6,927	6,439	5,426	5,736	5,801	7,105

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15856

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for the motor vehicle offences (a) dangerous and careless driving, (b) drunk driving, (c) speeding, (d) unlawful use of vehicle, (e) vehicle defect offences, and (f) other offences in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following tables.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Motor Vehicle Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997-2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003³
Dangerous and Careless Driving
Central	143	141	123	94	124	138	182
Dumfries and Galloway	282	191	256	172	144	197	207
Fife	358	254	185	161	236	237	210
Grampian	657	674	535	412	445	416	569
Lothian and Borders	633	527	356	323	420	457	507
Northern	448	330	288	223	273	308	405
Strathclyde	1,868	1,471	1,325	1,199	1,293	1,316	1,499
Tayside	343	320	301	232	282	350	448
Total	4,732	3,908	3,369	2,816	3,217	3,419	4,027
Drunk Driving
Central	424	383	371	393	298	640	537
Dumfries and Galloway	214	189	205	166	210	214	234
Fife	488	424	376	360	369	708	583
Grampian	948	895	840	784	811	920	1,012
Lothian and Borders	1,437	1,366	1,188	1,122	1,171	1,495	1,381
Northern	645	544	533	499	568	679	715
Strathclyde	3,710	2,869	2,830	2,784	2,725	3,430	3,017
Tayside	653	617	556	583	640	768	801
Total	8,519	7,287	6,899	6,691	6,792	8,854	8,280
Speeding
Central	638	701	939	838	768	713	859
Dumfries and Galloway	1,798	865	1,810	1,386	893	917	853
Fife	533	393	543	560	490	558	899
Grampian	1,411	1,827	1,800	1,519	1,205	1,090	1,249
Lothian and Borders	2,101	2,142	2,006	1,494	1,663	1,681	1,580
Northern	487	531	915	589	927	1,269	1,648
Strathclyde	3,859	3,943	4,594	3,567	2,353	1,701	2,840
Tayside	1,386	2,134	1,655	1,362	1,678	1,707	2,106
Total	12,213	12,536	14,262	11,315	9,977	9,636	12,034
Unlawful Use of Vehicle
Central	971	916	964	1,218	1,357	1,435	1,425
Dumfries and Galloway	575	478	517	475	474	545	527
Fife	1,488	1,687	1,448	1,539	1,632	1,770	1,897
Grampian	1,889	1,873	1,589	1,782	1,778	1,974	1,950
Lothian and Borders	3,667	3,699	3,097	3,257	3,336	3,416	3,525
Northern	765	588	547	592	505	661	675
Strathclyde	9,154	7,695	6,791	6,353	7,022	7,143	7,229
Tayside	1,830	1,836	1,685	1,706	1,700	1,948	2,229
Total	20,339	18,772	16,638	16,922	17,804	18,892	19,457
Vehicle Defect Offences
Central	235	195	161	131	132	147	95
Dumfries and Galloway	255	164	182	101	56	74	85
Fife	121	87	134	70	45	56	62
Grampian	402	456	276	190	117	190	253
Lothian and Borders	597	442	337	238	248	210	275
Northern	160	130	118	105	92	166	157
Strathclyde	1,154	871	566	575	428	349	429
Tayside	399	314	230	166	134	206	414
Total	3,323	2,659	2,004	1,576	1,252	1,398	1,770
Other offences
Central	321	280	227	437	399	446	320
Dumfries and Galloway	320	310	338	232	191	147	176
Fife	346	248	264	260	241	210	256
Grampian	595	654	700	697	448	355	344
Lothian and Borders	2,016	1,829	1,080	950	884	839	833
Northern	218	130	165	218	202	313	207
Strathclyde	2,915	2,675	2,979	2,352	2,354	2,043	1,673
Tayside	695	606	569	291	271	339	548
Total	7,426	6,732	6,322	5,437	4,990	4,692	4,357

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes a small number of cases where force is unknown.

3. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15851

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for the non-sexual crimes of violence (a) homicide, (b) serious assault and attempted murder, (c) robbery and (d) other offences in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following tables.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selected Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997- 2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003³
Homicide
Central	7	6	6	1	3	5	2
Dumfries and Galloway	2	1	-	-	4	6	1
Fife	9	3	1	1	7	5	2
Grampian	8	2	14	5	11	8	9
Lothian and Borders	12	18	11	10	8	17	10
Northern	5	4	7	6	5	2	6
Strathclyde	62	50	64	64	58	42	47
Tayside	3	4	4	8	5	9	6
Total	108	88	107	95	101	94	83
Serious Assault and Attempted Murder
Central	38	56	64	59	56	85	84
Dumfries and Galloway	33	29	27	25	27	41	34
Fife	55	58	57	51	71	99	60
Grampian	70	75	91	68	71	74	93
Lothian and Borders	184	144	142	169	173	227	228
Northern	22	39	36	57	43	45	67
Strathclyde	552	516	589	526	585	604	744
Tayside	83	85	80	94	95	123	100
Total	1,037	1,002	1,086	1,050²	1,121	1,298	1,410
Robbery
Central	22	17	20	20	27	23	32
Dumfries and Galloway	15	6	12	17	22	19	14
Fife	42	32	42	36	41	38	49
Grampian	34	55	40	33	50	51	70
Lothian and Borders	125	84	96	83	79	102	70
Northern	5	9	9	2	6	6	5
Strathclyde	380	389	425	405	383	356	362
Tayside	41	35	38	29	22	30	29
Total	664	627	682	625	632²	625	631
Other Crimes of Violence
Central	4	4	3	6	6	9	8
Dumfries and Galloway	4	9	2	4	4	1	1
Fife	9	13	12	6	8	10	9
Grampian	27	26	19	14	8	12	15
Lothian and Borders	34	29	25	30	19	32	49
Northern	16	6	12	8	10	8	6
Strathclyde	91	105	105	87	98	123	152
Tayside	33	31	27	33	28	25	23
Total	218	223	205	188	181	220	263

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes a small number of cases where force is unknown.

3. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15850

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for the crimes of indecency (a) rape, (b) attempted rape, (c) indecent assault, (d) lewd and indecent behaviour and (e) other offences in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selected Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997-2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003³
Rape
Central	-	3	2	1	-	-	3
Dumfries and Galloway	2	-	1	2	1	-	1
Fife	2	11	2	-	6	2	5
Grampian	1	3	6	1	2	2	3
Lothian and Borders	6	6	8	10	9	7	4
Northern	1	2	1	2	3	1	5
Strathclyde	13	11	9	11	16	17	15
Tayside	6	1	-	1	5	-	8
Total	31	37	29	28	42	29	44
Attempted Rape
Central	2	-	-	-	1	1	2
Dumfries and Galloway	-	1	1	-	-	1	-
Fife	4	2	3	3	2	-	1
Grampian	-	1	2	-	-	2	1
Lothian and Borders	3	1	5	2	8	1	3
Northern	1	2	-	1	-	-	-
Strathclyde	8	12	6	7	12	5	10
Tayside	4	6	5	2	3	3	1
Total	22	25	22	15	27²	13	18
Indecent Assault
Central	4	3	3	2	4	1	5
Dumfries and Galloway	3	-	1	1	1	-	2
Fife	8	4	9	6	6	9	8
Grampian	6	10	15	4	4	4	3
Lothian and Borders	15	20	14	9	8	11	19
Northern	5	8	6	7	6	6	4
Strathclyde	29	34	28	31	18	18	36
Tayside	14	7	6	6	4	7	5
Total	84	86	82	66	52²	56	82
Lewd and Indecent Behaviour
Central	24	18	9	14	17	15	12
Dumfries and Galloway	7	7	4	14	14	3	3
Fife	26	31	34	19	23	26	18
Grampian	25	24	13	18	25	21	27
Lothian and Borders	78	61	76	44	52	48	48
Northern	18	15	18	8	18	22	22
Strathclyde	133	135	130	109	110	130	106
Tayside	23	33	32	26	30	26	28
Total	334	324	316	252	289	291	264
Other Crimes of Indecency
Central	10	8	2	9	3	1	9
Dumfries and Galloway	8	7	1	1	3	2	1
Fife	5	5	9	4	4	8	10
Grampian	100	109	30	15	11	13	15
Lothian and Borders	38	33	26	20	19	13	23
Northern	7	4	6	10	10	4	13
Strathclyde	551	674	375	227	152	122	107
Tayside	11	16	12	11	10	13	12
Total	730	856	461	297	212	176	190

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes one case where force is unknown.

3. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15853

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many persons had a charge proved for (a) fire-raising and (b) vandalism etc., in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selected Offences¹, by Police Force Area, 1997-2003

Offence/Police Force Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Fire-Raising
Central	9	10	5	4	9	12	18
Dumfries and Galloway	4	6	7	2	6	4	4
Fife	10	10	8	13	14	15	20
Grampian	15	6	13	9	12	10	17
Lothian and Borders	22	19	15	15	16	22	29
Northern	5	14	7	5	8	8	16
Strathclyde	41	41	44	44	46	48	47
Tayside	13	16	9	11	9	16	15
Total	119	122	108	103	120	135	166
Vandalism etc.
Central	385	298	273	284	290	336	372
Dumfries and Galloway	140	118	112	159	105	155	189
Fife	384	347	283	292	322	250	301
Grampian	568	548	511	405	447	415	421
Lothian and Borders	738	628	586	558	560	587	495
Northern	303	320	277	257	276	281	392
Strathclyde	1,884	1,823	1,556	1,458	1,481	1,566	1,702
Tayside	430	441	409	433	416	405	467
Total	4,832	4,523	4,007	3,846	3,897	3,995	4,339

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-15540

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 19 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent NHS dentists there have been per capita in each year since 1997 and how many offered NHS treatment in (a) Scotland and (b) each NHS board.

Information is collected centrally on whole-time equivalent NHS dentists per capita working in hospital, community and public health services since 1997. However, information on the whole-time equivalent status of dentists working in the General Dental Service and how many offered NHS treatment is not held centrally.

Given the amount of detail required to answer the question, I will write to the member separately and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 36143).

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