- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 16 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) personal and (b) company bankruptcies there were in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Accountant in Bankruptcy maintains the Register of Insolvencies in Scotland. Details of bankruptcies are held by sheriffdoms rather than local authority areas and are compiled by financial year. The following tables give the number of bankruptcies for the financial years 1996-97 to 2002-03 and by quarters for the whole of 2003. Further information on bankruptcies is available in the Accountant in Bankruptcy’s Annual Report, which is available at
www.aib.gov.uk Sheriffdom | Sheriff Court | Financial Year (1st April to 31st March) |
| | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
Glasgow and Strathkelvin | Glasgow | 305 | 309 | 281 | 275 | 324 | 306 | 340 | 322 |
Lothians and Borders | Duns | 12 | 6 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Edinburgh | 228 | 251 | 268 | 252 | 234 | 197 | 234 | 262 |
| Haddington | 42 | 49 | 48 | 65 | 33 | 64 | 86 | 105 |
| Jedburgh | 14 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 31 | 18 | 28 | 28 |
| Linlithgow | 77 | 100 | 74 | 123 | 98 | 118 | 87 | 124 |
| Peebles | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| Selkirk | 14 | 23 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 14 | 17 |
| | 390 | 461 | 452 | 501 | 426 | 431 | 463 | 547 |
Grampian, Highland | Aberdeen | 143 | 177 | 172 | 187 | 188 | 211 | 187 | 202 |
and Islands | Banff | 8 | 6 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 19 |
| Dingwall | 10 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 25 |
| Dornoch | 9 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 |
| Elgin | 48 | 35 | 51 | 49 | 47 | 46 | 42 | 60 |
| Fort William | 1 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 31 | 13 |
| Inverness | 36 | 26 | 37 | 72 | 41 | 46 | 59 | 38 |
| Kirkwall | 8 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Lerwick | 6 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 12 |
| Lochmaddy | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Peterhead | 19 | 32 | 54 | 45 | 28 | 45 | 29 | 68 |
| Portree | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
| Stonehaven | 24 | 18 | 29 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 34 | 29 |
| Stornoway | 12 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Tain | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Wick | 14 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| | 353 | 375 | 456 | 478 | 442 | 475 | 474 | 520 |
North Strathclyde | Campbeltown | 10 | 12 | 12 | 23 | 13 | 23 | 15 | 7 |
| Dumbarton | 67 | 46 | 52 | 67 | 83 | 69 | 99 | 95 |
| Dunoon | 15 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 26 | 13 |
| Greenock | 27 | 29 | 44 | 43 | 34 | 35 | 49 | 49 |
| Kilmarnock | 97 | 136 | 133 | 156 | 162 | 160 | 136 | 158 |
| Oban | 9 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 23 | 25 | 42 | 22 |
| Paisley | 97 | 139 | 168 | 181 | 171 | 212 | 127 | 120 |
| Rothesay | 10 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| | 332 | 387 | 454 | 524 | 508 | 541 | 497 | 469 |
South Strathclyde, | Airdrie | 127 | 90 | 141 | 129 | 162 | 173 | 166 | 103 |
Dumfries and Galloway | Ayr | 89 | 61 | 96 | 114 | 83 | 98 | 113 | 89 |
| Dumfries | 45 | 45 | 51 | 48 | 44 | 55 | 43 | 51 |
| Hamilton | 173 | 181 | 199 | 212 | 159 | 212 | 214 | 232 |
| Kirkcudbright | 7 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 24 | 20 | 23 | 19 |
| Lanark | 15 | 27 | 54 | 34 | 30 | 35 | 36 | 39 |
| Stranraer | 21 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| | 477 | 432 | 570 | 569 | 517 | 605 | 607 | 548 |
Tayside, Central and Fife | Alloa | 35 | 36 | 50 | 34 | 24 | 31 | 40 | 35 |
| Arbroath | 20 | 30 | 35 | 37 | 35 | 29 | 29 | 43 |
| Cupar | 41 | 42 | 55 | 58 | 41 | 51 | 50 | 58 |
| Dundee | 57 | 69 | 108 | 115 | 105 | 139 | 135 | 162 |
| Dunfermline | 98 | 104 | 123 | 121 | 102 | 119 | 91 | 128 |
| Falkirk | 113 | 113 | 153 | 129 | 110 | 126 | 108 | 125 |
| Forfar | 20 | 19 | 36 | 20 | 31 | 27 | 30 | 31 |
| Kirkcaldy | 138 | 148 | 152 | 166 | 151 | 149 | 171 | 164 |
| Perth | 99 | 128 | 139 | 114 | 71 | 116 | 149 | 107 |
| Stirling | 56 | 48 | 46 | 44 | 51 | 48 | 44 | 50 |
| | 677 | 737 | 897 | 838 | 721 | 835 | 847 | 903 |
Totals | | 2,534 | 2,701 | 3,110 | 3,185 | 2,938 | 3,193 | 3,228 | 3,309 |
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Note:The above figures include awards made in the Court of Session and remitted tothe appropriate sheriff court.
Statistics on company bankruptciesare not available by local authority or sheriff court district. The total numbersfor the years for which records are available are:
| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
Notified Company Insolvencies: | | | | |
Liquidations | 753 | 568 | 853 | 794 |
Receiverships | 111 | 68 | 114 | 99 |
| 864 | 636 | 967 | 893 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 16 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of assault victims reported their attacker to have been under the influence of alcohol in each year since 1997, broken down by type of assault.
Answer
The question of whether or not a person accused of assault was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the alleged offence can be a relevant evidential matter to be considered during a trial and is therefore generally included in a police report to the Procurator Fiscal as part of the description of the circumstances of the offence.
It is not, however, recorded as part of the case data which can be extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal database and the information sought could not therefore be obtained without a manual search of all case papers, where these have been retained, which would involve disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether contracts into which it enters have a requirement that any personal data recorded as part of the contract conform to the standards adopted as to name lengths and numbers of names in the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages and whether it will indicate what other requirements it makes in this respect.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not set any standards regarding name lengths or number of names in respect of data recorded as part of contracts awarded.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 15 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the life expectancy is of (a) males and (b) females who (i) drink alcohol above recommended levels, (ii) drink alcohol at recommended levels, (iii) drink alcohol below recommended levels and (iv) abstain from alcohol.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13591 by Tavish Scott on 7 February 2005, which of the computer systems used by it or its agencies for recording personal details cannot record (a) people's full names as legally recorded in the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages, (b) all the initials of the forenames legally recorded in the register and (c) three initials or forenames as a minimum.
Answer
As there is no central repository for name formats in ICT systems in use across the Executive and its agencies, to provide the information requested on an individual system basis could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers have been deployed to the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in each year since it was established.
Answer
All police officers with the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency are seconded from Scottish police forces. Numbers may fluctuate throughout the year as officers join or are released back to their force. The table provides details of the number of officers with the agency at 1 April in each year since the agency was established.
Year | Number of Officers |
2001 | 107 |
2002 | 129 |
2003 | 175 |
2004 | 192 |
2005 (1 March) | 200 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will spend on schools in respect of (a) backlog repairs and (b) future maintenance work in the next five years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Detailed spending decisions of this nature are matters entirely for local authorities.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual attendance rate for pupils was in (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) special and (d) all schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Statistics on attendance rates in primary and secondary schools are published on the Executive’s website and are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre. Data up to 2002-03 is at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00304-00.asp (Bib. number 30245).Data for 2003-04 is at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00382-00.asp or (Bib. number 34761).Rates for 2003-04 are not directly comparable with previous years due to changes in definitions.
Data for special schools was not collected fully prior to 2003-04. Information for all schools is therefore only available for 2003-04 and is shown in the following table.
Attendance Rates for All Schools, 2003-04
| Attendance Rate |
Aberdeen City | 93.85% |
Aberdeenshire | 95.30% |
Angus | 93.88% |
Argyll and Bute | 93.79% |
Clackmannanshire | 91.91% |
Dumfries and Galloway | 94.36% |
Dundee City | 91.60% |
East Ayrshire | 92.36% |
East Dunbartonshire | 93.95% |
East Lothian | 94.19% |
East Renfrewshire | 95.15% |
Edinburgh, City of | 93.18% |
Eilean Siar | 93.35% |
Falkirk | 92.79% |
Fife | 93.32% |
Glasgow City | 90.54% |
Highland | 93.18% |
Inverclyde | 92.86% |
Midlothian | 93.08% |
Moray | 94.28% |
North Ayrshire | 92.03% |
North Lanarkshire | 92.02% |
Orkney Islands | 95.15% |
Perth and Kinross | 93.71% |
Renfrewshire | 93.02% |
Scottish Borders | 94.76% |
Shetland Islands | 94.38% |
South Ayrshire | 92.87% |
South Lanarkshire | 92.70% |
Stirling | 93.14% |
West Dunbartonshire | 92.55% |
West Lothian | 93.39% |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drink-driving convictions there were in (a) 1997 and (b) 1998, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The available information is given in the table.
Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Drink Driving1, 1997–98
Police Force Area | 1997 | 1998 |
Central | 424 | 383 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 214 | 189 |
Fife | 488 | 424 |
Grampian | 948 | 895 |
Lothian and Borders | 1,437 | 1,366 |
Northern | 645 | 544 |
Strathclyde | 3,710 | 2,869 |
Tayside | 653 | 617 |
Total | 8,519 | 7,287 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many females were convicted of drink-driving offences in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The available information is given in the table.
Females with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Drink-Driving1, 1997-2002
Police Force Area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
Central | 32 | 34 | 39 | 46 | 31 | 85 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 24 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 19 |
Fife | 52 | 42 | 37 | 49 | 47 | 97 |
Grampian | 102 | 93 | 73 | 104 | 112 | 117 |
Lothian and Borders | 165 | 153 | 122 | 128 | 125 | 196 |
Northern | 46 | 59 | 51 | 47 | 69 | 77 |
Strathclyde | 305 | 245 | 208 | 217 | 242 | 389 |
Tayside | 70 | 72 | 61 | 74 | 73 | 84 |
Total | 796 | 714 | 609 | 687 | 725 | 1,064 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.