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Question reference: S3W-14074

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for Moray commission area forwarding to HM Treasury in 2006-07 more monies than were collected.

Question reference: S3W-14073

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for the Inverclyde commission area forwarding to HM Treasury in 2006-07 more monies than were collected.

Question reference: S3W-14120

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of vandalism has been over the last five years, also broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-14070

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria are used to calculate the amount of money collected from each commission area district court that is forwarded to HM Treasury.

Information on the amount of money collected by each commission area district court and forwarded to HM Treasury is provided to the Scottish Government by the individual local authorities in each commission area. They do not detail the specific criteria they have used in making these returns, however the basis on which money could be retained or forwarded in 2006-07 and previous years was as follows:

Local authorities were allowed to retain all income from fiscal fines and from fines imposed upon conviction for common law offences. They also retained a set proportion of income received for fixed penalty notices for certain road traffic offences. This proportion was set at 10%, but increased to 33% in the case of penalties for stationary vehicles where the fine became registered. Money received from fines imposed upon conviction for statutory offences was forwarded to HM Treasury, as was the balance of fixed penalty notice payments for road traffic offences.

Question reference: S3W-14071

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, how much was collected from each commission area, broken down by type of crime.

Question reference: S3W-14072

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what percentage of money forwarded to HM Treasury from Scottish commission areas is used in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-13858

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers in East Dunbartonshire have been charged with driving while under the influence of drink or drugs over the last three years for which figures are available.

The recorded crime data held centrally has the number of crimes recorded by the police and the number recorded as detected (that is, there is sufficient evidence to justify consideration of criminal proceedings). We cannot provide any information on the number of people involved in crimes, since it is possible that individuals may be responsible for more than one of the crimes recorded. The available information is shown in the following table.

Number of Crimes of Driving a Motor Vehicle While Unfit through Drink or Drugs, or Driving with Blood Alcohol Content Above Limit, Detected by the Police in East Dunbartonshire, 2004-05 to 2006-07

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Driving motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs	14	15	12
Driving motor vehicle with blood alcohol content above prescribed limit	73	81	99
Total	87	96	111

Question reference: S3W-13586

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 6 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the East Dunbartonshire Council area were arrested in the last three years for contravening local byelaws banning drinking in public places.

Local authorities have the power to make byelaws to prohibit drinking in designated public places under provisions contained in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, subject to confirmation by the Scottish ministers. To date, 30 local authorities across Scotland have byelaws in place, covering over 480 towns and villages, and the built up areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Information on the number of arrests made by the police is not held centrally, only the number of crimes recorded. The number of breaches of these byelaws recorded within the East Dunbartonshire local authority area are shown in the following table.

Breaches of Byelaws which Prohibit Drinking in Designated Public Places, East Dunbartonshire Local Authority Area, 2004-05 to 2006-07

2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
530	513	476

Question reference: S3W-13429

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people were registered with an NHS dentist in the East Dunbartonshire local authority area in each of the last five years, broken down by age group.

The information requested is only available from March 2007. The table presents information as at March, June, September and December 2007.

Percentage of People Registered with an NHS Dentist; by Age Group in East Dunbartonshire¹

Date	Age Group											Total
Date	0-2	3-5	6-12	13-17	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65-74	75+	Total
March 2007	41.9	74.6	79.2	73.6	56.5	64.0	53.5	46.7	45.5	45.5	35.1	54.4
June 2007	42.1	74.8	79.1	74.7	57.0	63.7	53.7	47.0	45.8	45.7	36.7	54.7
September 2007	42.5	78.3	81.7	77.1	60.1	66.0	55.3	49.1	47.6	47.7	39.1	56.9
December 2007	41.4	79.9	82.1	78.3	63.9	68.7	57.0	50.9	48.8	48.5	40.9	58.5

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: 1. Registrations are based on the postcode of the practice as opposed to the postcode of the patient. The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of registrations by the resident population for the particular area/age group etc. This has led to percentages greater than 100.

Question reference: S3W-13585

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was collected by each district court in each of the last three years and how much was (a) retained by each local authority and (b) forwarded to HM Treasury.

The available information is contained in the following table. This data is taken from the annual returns made by Commission Areas to the Scottish Government.

Money Collected¹ and Sent Out by District Courts 2004-05 to 2006-07, by Commission Area

Commission Area	Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Collected During Year			Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Sent to the Exchequer During the Year
Commission Area	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	£1,080,678	£852,047	£680,400	£289,360	£255,186	£275,941
Aberdeenshire	£440,674	£560,965	£994,982	£310,988	£343,928	£310,988
Angus	£488,752	£518,559	£395,271	£323,277	£356,047	£323,277
Argyll and Bute	£212,839	£216,652	£221,416	£134,089	£128,146	£134,089
Clackmannanshire	£140,064	£129,213	£151,780	£93,135	£87,934	£93,135
Dumfries and Galloway	n/a	£377,238	n/a	n/a	£363,628	n/a
Dundee City	£656,948	£567,679	n/a	£261,985	£242,942	n/a
East Ayrshire	£1,371,905	£350,553	£271,683	£230,560	£275,828	£230,560
East Dunbartonshire	£158,934	£103,905	£110,016	£95,621	£34,630	£95,621
East Lothian	£125,044	£140,695	n/a	£86,984	£114,053	n/a
East Renfrewshire	£59,580	£104,908	£50,717	£43,232	£39,672	£43,232
Edinburgh, City of	£2,885,881	£2,357,461	£2,185,353	£795,448	£1,264,788	£795,448
Eilean Siar	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Falkirk	£476,545	£538,580	£354,339	£369,331	£440,621	£369,331
Fife	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Glasgow City	£3,359,364	£3,274,122	£3,420,280	£2,475,738	£1,650,945	£2,475,738
Highland	£839,748	£948,809	£854,598	£586,691	£471,138	£586,691
Inverclyde	£340,472	£304,680	£235,938	£294,719	£250,605	£294,719
Midlothian	£108,068	£149,083	£119,074	£65,999	£108,493	£65,999
Moray	£133,900	£148,084	£71,248	£84,373	£93,307	£84,373
North Ayrshire	£1,018,904	£240,133	£280,723	£143,024	£194,041	£143,024
North Lanarkshire	£804,391	£739,141	£589,702	£237,250	£251,766	£237,250
Perth and Kinross	£731,398	£681,201	£363,013	£136,721	£236,814	£136,721
Renfrewshire	£183,932	£313,802	£398,438	£120,507	£176,519	£120,507
Scottish Borders	£315,436	£376,431	£346,047	£254,870	£289,745	£254,870
South Ayrshire	£409,938	n/a	£383,761	£144,565	n/a	£144,565
South Lanarkshire	£565,827	£765,221	£681,893	£395,791	£340,522	£395,791
Stirling	n/a	£198,117	£190,437	n/a	£134,041	n/a
West Dunbartonshire	£201,584	£218,385	£220,476	£99,717	£116,524	£99,717
West Lothian	£333,804	£331,925	£458,486	£252,537	£236,028	£252,537
Scotland	£17,444,611	£15,507,589	£14,030,072	£8,326,514	£8,497,890	£7,964,126

Notes:

1. Including fines imposed by the court, registered fines, compensation orders, fines transferred out, fiscal fines and fixed penalty notices.

n/a - information not available from Commission Areas.

In some areas, a proportion of the money collected by district courts is also sent to the Safety Camera Partnership.