Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-27574

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the detection rate was in 2005-06 for (a) theft and handling of stolen goods, (b) fraud and forgery, (c) criminal damage, (d) violence against the person, (e) sexual offences, (f) robbery and (g) all violent crimes.

Question reference: S2W-27573

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) violent crimes and (b) crimes were committed in each police force area in each of the last 20 years.

For the number of non-sexualcrimes of violence recorded by the police, 1990 to 2004, by police force area, Irefer the member to the answer to question S2W-27226 on 2 August 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search. The other information requested is shown in the followingtables.

Number of Non-Sexual Crimes ofViolence Recorded by the Police, 1985 to 1989, by Police Force Area

Year	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Scotland
1985	365	89	309	596	2,300	168	6,965	664	11,456
1986	383	163	371	678	2,734	153	6,675	661	11,818
1987	445	191	426	664	3,103	179	7,962	716	13,686
1988	534	388	413	610	2,840	187	7,683	729	13,384
1989	547	107	419	648	3,177	198	7,800	710	13,606

Number of Crimes Recorded bythe Police, 1985 to 2004, by Police Force Area

Year	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Scotland
1985	19,986	7,132	23,186	33,093	82,519	11,888	248,448	31,647	457,899
1986	20,295	7,280	23,112	37,161	78,606	12,173	245,240	34,738	458,605
1987	19,971	7,248	23,949	39,013	79,224	12,593	255,533	35,416	472,947
1988	19,116	7,005	24,174	32,927	73,654	11,974	255,659	33,412	457,921
1989	20,669	6,572	26,691	33,317	73,419	11,355	269,931	36,254	478,208
1990	22,525	7,985	29,309	36,386	82,163	12,699	287,529	39,926	518,522
1991	24,424	9,733	32,422	41,136	92,935	13,337	312,429	46,505	572,921
1992	22,125	10,294	33,605	42,076	90,149	13,340	306,047	47,254	564,890
1993	20,786	10,169	32,182	40,322	84,952	13,076	270,143	45,617	517,247
1994	18,985	10,439	30,778	46,273	79,711	13,463	255,526	44,935	500,110
1995	17,672	8,742	26,036	46,812	77,036	15,424	243,174	40,801	475,697
1996	16,552	8,291	25,020	45,786	74,880	13,258	226,745	41,424	451,956
1997	15,661	8,357	22,884	44,342	71,510	12,266	210,783	34,839	420,642
1998	17,066	8,706	23,632	45,811	70,460	12,252	220,584	33,040	431,551
1999	17,627	8,500	26,647	48,078	82,768	12,920	206,948	32,215	435,703
2000	16,284	7,812	26,796	47,034	81,232	13,253	201,149	29,612	423,172
2001	17,001	7,697	27,629	43,481	77,569	13,732	204,008	29,976	421,093
2002	18,282	9,998	28,837	41,784	82,136	14,020	199,871	32,106	427,034
2003	19,389	10,747	31,586	37,897	78,032	14,488	185,104	29,736	406,979
2004	20,327	10,231	35,171	41,347	84,179	15,710	201,222	32,185	440,372

Question reference: S2W-27586

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Communities will reply to my letter of 12 June 2006 regarding Supporting People.

Question reference: S2W-27258

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19410 by Cathy Jamieson on 29 September 2005, how many offences of (a) perjury, (b) resisting arrest and (c) wasting police time and how many bail offences other than absconding and re-offending were committed in (i)1997, (ii) 1998, (iii) 2004 and (iv) 2005, broken down by police force area.

The available information isgiven in the following tables. Figures for 2005 will be available following thepublication of the statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2005-06 in September.

Selected Crimes Recorded by thePolice in Scotland, by Police Force Area, 1997

	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Scotland
Public mischief (inc wasting police time)	80	31	63	68	123	57	2,928	315	3,665
Resisting arrest	278	157	308	466	669	324	3,394	368	5,964
Bail offences other than absconding/re-offending	67	5	19	42	134	17	173	244	701
Perjury and subordination	2	8	0	4	3	0	8	2	27

Selected Crimes Recorded by thePolice in Scotland, by Police Force Area, 1998

	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Scotland
Public mischief (inc wasting police time)	65	24	56	74	151	35	2,893	326	3,624
Resisting arrest	271	181	305	442	557	236	3,034	359	5,385
Bail offences other than absconding/re-offending	146	5	70	77	185	16	537	294	1,330
Perjury and subordination	2	2	3	9	6	3	9	1	35

Selected Crimes Recorded by thePolice in Scotland, by Police Force Area, 2004

	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Scotland
Public mischief (inc wasting police time)	80	48	106	123	161	60	332	297	1,207
Resisting arrest	433	194	423	449	856	345	3,933	398	7,031
Bail offences other than absconding/re-offending	692	81	390	372	853	152	2661	1885	7,086
Perjury and subordination	5	1	1	4	5	2	14	1	33

The category of “bail offencesother than absconding/re-offending” relates to breaches of conditions of bail. Theincrease in this category reflects an increase in the granting (and enforcementof) additional bail conditions in order to provide safeguards over and above thestandard bail conditions (for example: exclusions from an area/address in domesticabuse cases, curfew orders and electronic monitoring as a condition of bail). Thenumber of these crimes has been increasing steadily over the last eight years.

Question reference: S2W-27499

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 18 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) nursery, (b) playgroup and (c) day-care providers charged a fee to make up the difference between the money received from the Executive to fund provision for three and four-year-olds and the cost of provision in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-27397

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of sheriff court convictions of women were in respect of any offence related to misuse of (a) alcohol and (b) drugs in each of the last three years for which figures are available, broken down by sheriff court.

The available information isgiven in the following table:

Women with a Charge Proved inScottish Sheriff Courts for Drug and Alcohol Related Offences¹, 2002-03to 2004-05, Expressed as a Percentage of the Total Number of Women with aCharge Proved for All Offences in Each Sheriff Court

Sheriff Court	Drug Related Offences²			Alcohol Related Offences³
Sheriff Court	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Aberdeen	6.7	6.6	8.1	9.3	10.7	11.8
Airdrie	4.1	6.1	3.7	7.6	8.3	10.8
Alloa	6.8	11.6	7.5	5.3	5.1	3.5
Arbroath	4.0	2.5	3.1	6.0	9.5	14.1
Ayr	4.8	7.0	4.3	6.8	5.4	7.9
Banff	9.0	11.8	7.7	20.5	6.5	9.6
Campbeltown	15.8	2.9	0.0	10.5	11.8	21.2
Cupar	4.6	1.4	3.2	21.1	21.9	18.9
Dingwall	1.9	8.5	3.2	9.6	12.8	25.8
Dornoch	12.5	8.7	0.0	12.5	21.7	33.3
Dumbarton	6.3	4.9	9.9	18.9	11.8	13.1
Dumfries	3.4	3.0	1.4	3.8	3.0	5.3
Dundee	4.3	3.3	4.3	5.6	6.7	7.2
Dunfermline	2.4	1.8	1.9	14.7	8.9	9.3
Dunoon	7.1	10.0	0.0	16.7	18.0	25.7
Duns	0.0	8.8	2.1	16.1	17.6	10.6
Edinburgh	4.0	4.9	8.3	9.4	8.6	9.6
Elgin	1.2	4.4	6.6	11.7	9.8	13.1
Falkirk	5.5	7.5	3.1	12.1	5.9	9.1
Forfar	3.2	1.7	2.0	6.4	3.3	13.3
Fort William	9.3	6.7	5.6	18.6	30.0	2.8
Glasgow	12.3	13.8	14.3	9.0	4.0	1.9
Greenock	9.4	15.1	11.9	9.0	5.4	6.8
Haddington	1.3	1.6	9.4	14.1	18.5	20.5
Hamilton	6.0	3.1	6.7	10.2	6.7	7.7
Inverness	4.6	4.8	5.6	14.2	14.5	11.6
Jedburgh	1.3	1.2	2.9	6.4	8.3	3.8
Kilmarnock	6.9	10.1	7.7	6.9	5.8	7.0
Kirkcaldy	3.3	3.7	3.5	12.2	7.0	7.4
Kirkcudbright	0.0	0.0	6.1	15.6	19.5	12.1
Kirkwall	4.8	16.7	3.7	28.6	27.8	29.6
Lanark	3.3	1.0	8.3	10.7	10.3	7.3
Lerwick	6.7	4.0	4.2	26.7	16.0	14.6
Linlithgow	1.0	1.9	4.3	18.1	12.2	12.9
Lochmaddy	50.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	50.0	37.5
Oban	10.8	5.8	15.4	13.5	17.3	3.8
Paisley	2.4	4.0	4.3	14.4	6.8	7.7
Peebles	0.0	4.5	4.3	10.7	13.6	4.3
Perth	13.6	7.7	11.1	16.1	11.8	10.8
Peterhead	7.7	14.7	15.6	11.5	8.6	13.1
Portree	20.0	14.3	0.0	30.0	21.4	16.7
Rothesay	0.0	4.8	13.6	26.7	19.0	4.5
Selkirk	2.2	1.3	5.7	8.7	18.7	4.8
Stirling	4.4	6.2	6.2	12.2	6.8	7.6
Stonehaven	2.0	0.0	0.0	18.0	16.2	39.6
Stornoway	9.4	0.0	0.0	28.1	8.7	24.0
Stranraer	8.0	12.4	7.5	8.0	5.0	7.5
Tain	14.0	7.6	13.2	5.3	2.5	9.2
Wick	3.6	2.2	0.0	10.9	6.5	26.2
Scotland	5.7	6.4	7.0	10.5	8.2	8.9

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Identifiable drugs relatedoffences included in the table include: Illegal importation of drugs; production,manufacture or cultivation of drugs; supply and possession with intent to supply;possession of drugs, and money laundering related offences.

3. Identifiable alcohol relatedoffences included in the table include: drunkenness; offences by licensed persons;other offences against liquor licensing laws; consumption of alcohol in designatedplaces where byelaws prohibit; being drunk while riding a bicycle, and drunk driving.

Question reference: S2W-27572

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 17 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers (a) retired and (b) retired on the grounds of ill health in each year since 1997, broken down by category of illness.

Table one contains details ofage retirements from 1 April 1997 in the Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme [STSS]:

Year to 31 March	Age retirements
1998	4,470
1999	2,128
2000	2,342
2001	2,399
2002	1,609
2003	3,305
2004	1,938
2005	1,926
2006	2,409

Table 2 details the number ofill-health retirals in the STSS broken down by category of illness. This informationwas only retained from 1 September 1997 and until 1 April 2000 no categories wereidentified:

Category of Illness	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Infectious diseases			1	1	1	3	1	1
Neoplasms			39	34	49	28	46	36
Endocrine and similar diseases			6	2	4	5	8	1
Diseases of blood, etc			2	4	0	4	2	0
Mental disorders			166	166	121	88	80	47
Diseases of nervous system, etc			41	48	51	48	50	29
Diseases of circulatory system			22	23	15	22	21	12
Diseases of respiratory system, etc			3	5	5	9	2	13
Diseases of digestive system			8	11	4	9	1	3
Diseases of genito-urinary system			2	4	1	3	1	3
Complications of pregnancy, etc			0	0	0	0	0	0
Skin diseases, etc			0	0	5	2	2	1
Diseases of musculoskeletal system			62	42	51	44	41	29
Congenital abnormalities			0	0	0	1	1	3
Conditions of the perinatal period			0	0	0	1	0	0
Symptoms, signs and ill defined conditions			0	0	0	0	2	0
Injury and poisoning			1	1	1	0	2	2
Chronic fatigue syndrome			21	25	17	16	11	4
Miscellaneous 1			0	0	1	3	3	0
Miscellaneous 2 with no known diagnosis			5	0	1	0	0	0
Total	223	400	379	366	327	286	274	184

Question reference: S2W-27498

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 16 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average life expectancy was in (a) 1994 and (b) 2004, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) NHS board area, and what projected average life expectancies are in each area in (1) 2024, (2) 2034 and (3) 2044.

Life expectancy figures are normallycalculated for a three year period, to provide large enough numbers to ensure accuracy.

Information on life expectancyat birth for the period 1993-95 is available from the Office for National Statisticswebsite through the following link:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=8841&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=272.

Informationfor the period 2002-04 is available fromthe General Register Office for Scotland website through the following link:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/life-expectancy/le2002-04.html.

Projected life expectancyfigures are not currently available for local authority and NHS board areas becauseit is difficult to produce reliable projections for such relatively small populations.

Question reference: S2W-27469

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it makes use of buildings such as Duff House in Banff which are available to it at no charge other than for consumed resources directly attributable to such use and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.

Question reference: S2W-27394

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many women were sentenced to a term of imprisonment of (a) any length, (b) no more than six months and (c) no more than one month in each of the last three years for which figures are available, broken down by sheriff court.

The available information isgiven in the following table.

Women Receivinga Custodial Sentence in Scottish Sheriff Courts, 2002-03 To 2004-05, by Lengthof Sentence¹

Sheriff Court	2002-03			2003-04			2004-05
Sheriff Court	Not Over One Month	Not Over Six Months	Any Length	Not Over One Month	Not Over Six Months	Any Length	Not Over One Month	Not Over Six Months	Any Length
Aberdeen	24	71	80	4	51	62	14	60	71
Airdrie	4	21	25	1	19	26	1	34	43
Alloa	10	19	21	3	28	31	-	4	4
Arbroath	3	8	8	1	14	14	1	1	1
Ayr	17	100	104	16	86	89	27	76	77
Banff	2	4	4	-	-	-	1	7	7
Campbeltown	1	2	2	-	1	1	-	-	-
Cupar	-	2	2	-	1	1	3	10	10
Dingwall	1	8	8	-	3	3	-	3	4
Dornoch	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dumbarton	1	8	8	2	27	29	2	18	19
Dumfries	5	53	55	1	32	33	-	30	35
Dundee	26	49	53	10	44	45	22	83	85
Dunfermline	-	15	18	2	24	26	2	18	20
Duns	3	3	3	2	2	2	-	-	-
Edinburgh	9	91	105	29	139	158	22	104	120
Elgin	3	29	31	2	21	23	3	21	22
Falkirk	24	51	54	10	22	24	9	23	24
Forfar	-	9	9	6	16	18	1	5	5
Fort William	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Glasgow	9	66	94	7	73	98	12	82	109
Greenock	7	33	34	3	16	17	5	14	22
Haddington	1	22	22	-	8	10	-	3	3
Hamilton	3	32	33	8	46	56	5	72	83
Inverness	1	13	15	6	21	24	-	11	11
Jedburgh	-	9	9	-	3	3	4	9	10
Kilmarnock	5	117	125	10	129	138	6	100	113
Kirkcaldy	4	22	23	3	28	28	6	44	54
Kirkcudbright	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	4	9
Kirkwall	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
Lanark	-	1	1	1	3	5	1	10	10
Lerwick	-	1	1	-	6	6	1	6	6
Linlithgow	5	8	8	7	16	16	13	35	36
Lochmaddy	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
Oban	-	3	4	2	15	17	1	1	1
Paisley	7	15	20	6	21	25	11	53	58
Peebles	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	4	5
Perth	3	20	26	5	29	31	9	44	52
Peterhead	3	9	9	1	2	2	2	9	10
Selkirk	2	9	12	1	3	3	9	14	14
Stirling	6	20	22	3	35	37	4	37	43
Stonehaven	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stornoway	-	1	2	1	1	1	-	2	2
Stranraer	1	10	13	1	16	21	-	14	16
Tain	-	4	4	2	11	11	1	2	4
Wick	-	2	5	1	5	5	-	1	1
Scotland	190	965	1,077	157	1,018	1,141	198	1,069	1,220

Note: 1. “No more than onemonth” has been defined as 30 days or less, and “No more than six months” hasbeen defined as 183 days or less.

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