Chamber and committees

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

 

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

 

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
	0-2	3-5	6-12	13-17	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65-74	75+
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.

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
	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.

As private residential accommodation, tenement flats and related stairs and closes are exempt from the provisions of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005. In these circumstances, any issues which individual occupiers might have in connection with people smoking in communal areas within tenement buildings require to be resolved privately.

Priorities for distribution of lottery funding in Scotland by the BIG Lottery Fund are set by Scottish ministers in policy directions made with the consent of the Secretary of State. In accordance with these priorities, decisions on distribution of lottery funds are made by the Big Lottery Fund, independently of Scottish Ministers. Information on such decisions is available from the Chief Executive, Big Lottery Fund, 1 Atlantic Quay, 1 Robertson Street, Glasgow G2 8JB, tel: 0141 242 1400.

Priorities for distribution of lottery funding in Scotland by the BIG Lottery Fund are set by Scottish ministers in policy directions made with the consent of the Secretary of State. In accordance with these priorities, decisions on distribution of lottery funds are made by the Big Lottery Fund, independently of Scottish Ministers. Information on such decisions is available from the Chief Executive, Big Lottery Fund, 1 Atlantic Quay, 1 Robertson Street, Glasgow G2 8JB, tel: 0141 242 1400.

The first set of national best practice indicators (BPIs) for public procurement in Scotland will be published today. The project is a significant step forward in the procurement reform programme and will be rolled out across the wider public sector.

The BPIs were developed by a working group with representation from all parts of the public sector, including local authorities, health, higher education/further education and government agencies and non-departmental public bodies. The project will encourage procurement teams within public sector organisations to focus on the priority areas of efficiency, collaboration, compliance, skills and e-procurement with a view to delivering improved value for money and supporting more efficient, effective and coordinated service delivery.

Copies are available at www.scotland.gov.uk/BPIprocurementsummary.

The latest authoritative study for the UK on this matter, was the 10th Report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment, published in June 2005, on The incidence of childhood cancer around nuclear installations in Great Britain. This study concluded that there was no evidence of excess numbers of cases in any local 25km area around any of the nuclear power stations.

The Scottish Government is aware of the recommendations made by the Sentencing Commission in August 2006, in particular that steps should be taken to introduce a procedure that gives effect to a system of sentencing guidelines.

As set out in our manifesto, we believe that such a system would deliver more consistent and transparent sentencing and intend to set up a sentencing council to take this work forward. We plan to consult with key interests and stakeholders, especially the judiciary, on the issues around establishing such a body before coming forward with detailed proposals.