Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-09272

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) crimes, (b) non-sexual crimes of violence, (c) serious assaults, (d) crimes of rape and attempted rape, (e) crimes of housebreaking, (f) crimes of vandalism, (g) crimes of handling an offensive weapon, (h) drug crimes and (i) murders have occurred in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.

The requested information is given in the following tables.

Total Number of Crimes Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05¹	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	28,793	30,937	32,475	29,944	28,632	26,704	24,679	24,585	24,602	23,322
Aberdeenshire	10,515	10,332	10,801	11,000	9,844	8,870	9,646	11,001	11,345	10,527
Angus	6,829	6,440	6,578	5,785	6,230	6,184	5,775	5,842	5,901	6,099
Argyll and Bute	4,149	4,341	4,129	4,151	4,226	4,261	4,536	5,361	4,804	5,303
City of Edinburgh	46,207	47,326	55,387	52,753	52,616	50,610	53,299	52,059	49,848	48,385
City of Glasgow	91,510	96,041	88,151	85,939	84,724	83,399	76,037	78,014	75,870	75,387
Clackmannanshire	2,477	2,676	2,662	3,095	3,129	3,283	3,457	3,471	3,887	4,932
Dumfries and Galloway	9,022	8,471	8,269	7,664	8,126	10,279	10,488	10,679	9,732	9,547
Dundee City	19,121	17,879	17,228	16,172	17,155	16,493	16,434	17,398	15,593	15,512
East Ayrshire	8,328	9,063	8,974	8,991	10,131	8,579	7,888	9,214	8,216	8,544
East Dunbartonshire	6,164	6,246	5,439	5,386	4,942	4,649	4,402	5,325	4,622	4,874
East Lothian	4,142	4,013	4,660	4,180	4,369	4,746	4,390	4,944	4,827	5,232
East Renfrewshire	4,894	5,042	4,748	4,064	3,896	4,029	4,189	4,561	4,376	4,164
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	636	649	511	561	714	683	802	909	1,130	1,125
Falkirk	8,723	9,432	9,272	8,486	8,895	9,492	10,390	10,451	9,573	10,148
Fife	22,856	23,298	27,596	26,479	28,043	29,677	32,573	34,862	30,319	30,304
Highland	10,044	10,382	11,433	11,914	12,521	12,289	12,496	13,471	12,854	14,872
Inverclyde	8,364	8,522	7,286	7,124	7,719	7,304	7,758	8,027	7,206	7,040
Midlothian	4,551	4,560	5,362	4,854	5,075	5,366	5,614	8,219	7,276	6,325
Moray	5,270	4,550	4,957	4,881	5,166	4,383	4,541	5,398	5,655	5,900
North Ayrshire	8,750	9,480	9,459	9,845	10,723	10,406	10,024	11,200	11,032	9,871
North Lanarkshire	24,073	25,311	23,449	24,361	24,415	22,792	21,609	25,227	25,309	26,157
Orkney Islands	368	464	349	414	368	437	530	574	578	497
Perth and Kinross	8,586	8,327	7,823	7,175	7,946	8,317	7,898	8,605	7,958	7,634
Renfrewshire	16,285	17,716	16,483	15,851	16,463	14,511	14,905	15,223	13,296	14,672
Scottish Borders	4,658	5,096	5,481	5,121	5,624	5,675	6,044	5,905	5,633	5,402
Shetland Islands	787	662	546	595	635	667	708	706	851	782
South Ayrshire	7,531	8,092	7,010	7,223	7,915	7,349	6,878	7,741	7,256	7,531
South Lanarkshire	20,994	21,654	20,947	19,481	19,911	19,667	20,129	20,775	20,185	20,969
Stirling	4,673	5,404	5,402	4,875	5,149	5,616	5,893	5,894	5,963	6,150
West Dunbartonshire	9,853	9,350	9,398	8,560	8,710	8,970	8,716	9,491	9,101	9,160
West Lothian	11,849	12,340	13,216	11,570	12,176	12,594	11,486	12,989	12,987	12,890
All Scotland	421,002	434,096	435,481	418,494	426,188	418,281	414,214	438,121	417,785	419,257

Note: 1. Data from 2004-05 shows the impact of the implementation of the Scottish Crime Recording Standard, which was expected to increase the numbers of minor crimes recorded by the police.

Total Number of Non-Sexual Crimes of Violence Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	530	557	774	746	706	610	588	553	515	569
Aberdeenshire	175	257	314	360	298	310	249	236	264	286
Angus	218	187	164	127	125	100	118	102	97	138
Argyll and Bute	165	154	171	183	194	218	166	182	219	176
City of Edinburgh	1,513	1,529	1,830	1,765	1,624	1,888	1,704	1,468	1,342	1,418
City of Glasgow	4,007	4,743	4,843	4,339	4,774	4,950	4,830	4,530	4,007	4,064
Clackmannanshire	67	64	60	88	125	107	108	110	125	158
Dumfries and Galloway	201	144	147	157	193	211	209	188	179	160
Dundee City	452	376	366	326	323	300	346	368	374	386
East Ayrshire	264	348	406	380	455	346	284	370	265	320
East Dunbartonshire	215	179	171	174	184	167	147	166	151	156
East Lothian	124	139	179	167	133	140	158	122	92	153
East Renfrewshire	151	150	183	146	132	157	160	150	143	142
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	10	6	8	48	18	36	28	40	31	55
Falkirk	200	271	249	233	269	241	246	235	222	204
Fife	338	406	588	618	714	763	649	654	619	580
Highland	221	288	297	374	357	341	383	419	423	546
Inverclyde	362	383	351	341	387	364	400	320	288	298
Midlothian	129	125	209	173	126	163	166	161	151	127
Moray	115	105	148	181	147	166	114	107	110	101
North Ayrshire	338	415	450	427	449	484	451	383	400	413
North Lanarkshire	764	864	814	705	796	813	699	860	879	845
Orkney Islands	4	8	11	5	18	6	18	7	13	6
Perth and Kinross	182	178	147	124	147	153	116	164	105	138
Renfrewshire	644	710	695	667	814	721	639	594	616	678
Scottish Borders	154	144	179	159	162	292	173	159	134	109
Shetland Islands	7	5	8	24	12	22	15	28	14	33
South Ayrshire	225	254	289	241	286	279	265	267	235	261
South Lanarkshire	826	873	903	620	731	794	748	814	779	744
Stirling	122	117	125	115	156	137	150	143	142	159
West Dunbartonshire	367	397	439	472	468	465	484	446	457	384
West Lothian	304	317	313	327	330	330	376	382	335	292
All Scotland	13,394	14,693	15,831	14,812	15,653	16,074	15,187	14,728	13,726	14,099

Total Number of Crimes of Serious Assault Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by local authority area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	168	199	234	229	171	184	199	191	173	212
Aberdeenshire	78	122	119	101	89	103	88	88	120	110
Angus	61	61	62	52	63	49	43	42	45	51
Argyll and Bute	78	82	90	79	80	101	83	107	88	103
City of Edinburgh	503	494	440	446	418	416	372	402	330	357
City of Glasgow	1,433	1,695	1,979	1,831	2,233	2,254	2,378	2,187	1,954	1,994
Clackmannanshire	33	36	36	51	54	46	43	48	47	47
Dumfries and Galloway	106	68	65	71	112	120	127	131	106	64
Dundee City	126	147	139	121	98	100	102	116	147	125
East Ayrshire	131	182	198	194	248	189	158	240	156	190
East Dunbartonshire	124	108	76	85	92	79	77	101	98	82
East Lothian	52	70	73	42	57	68	61	46	31	56
East Renfrewshire	61	67	76	66	65	57	66	70	55	59
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	0	2	2	10	7	19	12	12	15	36
Falkirk	86	159	118	117	135	121	144	111	96	81
Fife	88	92	243	264	292	272	274	242	260	275
Highland	84	119	152	207	203	189	160	201	228	266
Inverclyde	100	149	138	156	194	182	215	194	157	173
Midlothian	66	54	92	74	59	59	64	60	61	53
Moray	43	43	45	48	40	53	45	48	47	37
North Ayrshire	182	199	217	221	207	212	231	215	228	238
North Lanarkshire	420	417	433	399	384	353	334	441	458	475
Orkney Islands	1	5	7	3	10	5	9	6	10	4
Perth and Kinross	65	69	51	45	54	58	35	65	55	65
Renfrewshire	274	268	294	291	295	294	270	298	300	336
Scottish Borders	96	77	81	77	68	96	66	70	57	45
Shetland Islands	2	0	5	22	9	16	7	21	8	12
South Ayrshire	148	146	138	112	178	143	129	157	141	158
South Lanarkshire	451	442	471	329	362	390	380	442	443	415
Stirling	49	46	58	52	73	66	86	53	53	55
West Dunbartonshire	148	158	173	201	194	229	219	219	215	211
West Lothian	149	155	162	147	141	131	148	151	138	140
All Scotland	5,406	5,931	6,467	6,143	6,685	6,654	6,625	6,775	6,320	6,525

Total Number of Crimes of Rape and Attempted Rape Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	34	44	64	36	32	40	44	40	56	53
Aberdeenshire	43	43	23	27	21	39	32	28	37	41
Angus	24	28	25	13	18	35	30	17	26	14
Argyll and Bute	9	6	13	4	13	16	28	15	13	19
City of Edinburgh	121	144	54	120	90	126	104	156	137	158
City of Glasgow	110	113	122	117	145	127	145	171	175	161
Clackmannanshire	2	4	0	7	9	4	4	16	10	13
Dumfries and Galloway	26	27	42	17	23	17	29	22	32	21
Dundee City	44	30	38	39	46	44	30	42	51	33
East Ayrshire	23	14	15	15	20	19	19	21	20	20
East Dunbartonshire	14	11	7	2	3	7	4	7	4	2
East Lothian	11	5	14	9	19	19	20	16	26	10
East Renfrewshire	5	11	3	7	5	7	5	3	7	4
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	3	2	1	0	5	5	16	4	4	3
Falkirk	5	12	6	8	17	32	28	24	33	55
Fife	43	38	61	53	67	85	95	102	101	92
Highland	24	29	44	20	23	27	40	53	47	68
Inverclyde	13	13	15	19	14	13	3	7	9	11
Midlothian	9	15	16	17	12	22	23	20	24	15
Moray	8	13	14	9	9	8	24	18	33	17
North Ayrshire	13	18	22	17	14	15	38	33	36	28
North Lanarkshire	30	27	31	18	33	41	49	52	54	56
Orkney Islands	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	3	4	1
Perth and Kinross	13	33	14	15	9	16	18	14	29	21
Renfrewshire	19	26	28	16	17	21	19	21	19	23
Scottish Borders	22	10	17	5	21	19	23	36	26	21
Shetland Islands	1	5	4	1	5	4	1	5	1	0
South Ayrshire	17	23	13	17	7	7	27	18	21	26
South Lanarkshire	16	23	18	29	29	37	49	51	40	39
Stirling	5	12	2	8	20	23	27	16	27	26
West Dunbartonshire	17	9	14	13	12	15	22	17	11	19
West Lothian	38	9	15	12	29	33	39	61	48	53
All Scotland	764	797	755	690	788	924	1,037	1,109	1,161	1,123

Total Number of Crimes of Housebreaking Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	4,503	4,787	4,349	5,035	3,983	3,503	3,076	2,674	2,687	2,166
Aberdeenshire	1,277	1,208	1,193	1,350	1,098	853	846	883	832	846
Angus	715	787	746	605	580	477	356	320	327	334
Argyll and Bute	572	618	614	471	480	454	388	440	338	358
City of Edinburgh	4,561	4,195	4,612	4,103	4,031	3,459	4,328	4,271	4,786	4,094
City of Glasgow	11,130	11,675	9,964	9,024	8,594	7,578	6,092	6,019	4,894	5,285
Clackmannanshire	487	484	425	466	430	335	259	280	248	312
Dumfries and Galloway	1,138	1,112	1,181	1,061	903	914	709	601	447	473
Dundee City	2,640	2,364	2,187	2,069	2,489	2,008	1,281	1,502	1,167	1,201
East Ayrshire	1,603	1,630	1,706	1,563	1,567	1,081	1,028	873	704	721
East Dunbartonshire	990	982	791	813	710	629	474	428	426	462
East Lothian	445	414	431	316	400	405	361	340	339	387
East Renfrewshire	979	921	881	642	581	611	580	498	442	431
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	39	52	35	47	41	28	32	26	61	39
Falkirk	1,022	1,160	1,162	1,047	948	998	1,051	891	680	755
Fife	3,222	3,132	3,917	3,201	3,329	3,259	3,398	3,131	2,470	2,328
Highland	801	720	764	669	625	693	718	643	381	467
Inverclyde	1,615	1,443	1,145	776	772	900	855	738	673	657
Midlothian	440	516	571	369	524	624	561	453	569	386
Moray	517	495	545	526	468	379	297	373	351	534
North Ayrshire	1,235	1,441	1,524	1,525	1,512	1,244	1,132	1,020	1,127	767
North Lanarkshire	3,634	3,390	2,925	2,642	2,655	1,986	1,750	1,801	1,715	1,848
Orkney Islands	26	28	16	18	15	33	11	23	7	15
Perth and Kinross	1,035	965	886	661	754	663	559	484	379	389
Renfrewshire	2,635	2,796	2,353	2,264	2,135	1,730	1,513	1,682	1,112	1,203
Scottish Borders	630	483	484	346	296	317	317	308	230	228
Shetland Islands	103	44	31	92	54	25	20	23	31	26
South Ayrshire	938	1,078	830	904	809	705	768	626	558	549
South Lanarkshire	2,927	2,899	2,877	2,450	2,424	2,145	1,723	1,659	1,598	1,680
Stirling	600	744	796	599	461	490	473	475	380	379
West Dunbartonshire	1,607	1,513	1,266	1,003	914	1,001	763	705	607	501
West Lothian	1,570	1,708	1,656	1,072	933	1,059	713	769	753	759
All Scotland	55,636	55,784	52,863	47,729	45,515	40,586	36,432	34,959	31,319	30,580

Total Number of Crimes of Vandalism Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05¹	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	3,832	4,210	4,533	4,280	4,323	3,912	4,631	5,335	5,315	5,415
Aberdeenshire	2,965	2,720	3,092	3,053	2,705	2,353	2,829	3,699	4,066	3,879
Angus	1,958	1,692	1,882	1,868	1,988	2,099	1,908	2,008	1,784	1,831
Argyll and Bute	789	772	790	825	926	946	1,173	1,827	1,536	1,683
City of Edinburgh	8,142	8,058	9,660	9,304	9,834	9,767	10,265	10,832	11,555	12,085
City of Glasgow	14,104	12,729	12,075	13,888	15,319	15,391	13,314	17,265	18,171	17,482
Clackmannanshire	490	489	583	772	730	745	770	1,029	1,167	1,702
Dumfries and Galloway	1,629	1,686	1,736	1,806	2,251	2,888	3,197	3,337	3,202	3,025
Dundee City	3,337	3,256	3,220	3,318	3,638	3,706	3,581	3,716	3,491	3,551
East Ayrshire	1,572	1,564	1,407	1,526	2,159	1,781	1,718	2,806	2,601	2,782
East Dunbartonshire	1,233	1,127	1,199	1,166	1,000	1,113	1,102	1,842	1,788	1,853
East Lothian	1,132	1,074	1,152	879	1,021	1,119	1,217	1,885	1,896	1,907
East Renfrewshire	773	573	603	594	794	942	1,083	1,749	1,670	1,484
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	199	176	131	184	166	192	231	268	333	344
Falkirk	1,877	1,707	1,845	1,567	1,542	1,842	2,486	2,972	2,785	3,123
Fife	5,102	4,844	6,046	5,802	7,096	7,214	8,696	10,856	9,778	9,740
Highland	1,910	2,181	2,887	3,044	3,109	3,100	3,211	4,156	3,775	4,549
Inverclyde	1,060	1,119	888	1,301	1,471	1,716	1,771	2,095	2,347	2,184
Midlothian	1,169	1,214	1,294	1,042	1,044	1,181	1,543	2,464	2,870	2,440
Moray	1,738	1,243	1,208	1,185	1,233	1,154	1,349	1,788	2,022	1,955
North Ayrshire	1,552	1,299	1,393	1,936	2,406	2,550	2,515	3,652	3,424	3,172
North Lanarkshire	4,298	3,936	3,959	5,438	5,845	5,131	5,225	7,686	8,618	8,897
Orkney Islands	80	191	86	143	118	160	222	265	259	162
Perth and Kinross	1,569	1,666	1,764	1,704	2,101	2,090	2,076	2,277	2,311	1,942
Renfrewshire	2,912	2,651	2,831	3,244	3,468	3,143	3,288	3,855	3,673	3,842
Scottish Borders	1,004	1,256	1,236	1,189	1,617	1,607	1,794	1,966	1,991	1,909
Shetland Islands	216	211	134	182	250	223	290	235	308	235
South Ayrshire	1,342	1,211	1,042	1,384	2,014	1,688	1,756	2,487	2,335	2,652
South Lanarkshire	3,666	3,532	3,568	4,305	4,581	5,088	5,687	6,765	6,443	6,855
Stirling	736	727	840	670	720	916	1,183	1,381	1,563	1,696
West Dunbartonshire	1,713	1,542	1,602	1,538	2,037	2,274	2,268	2,955	2,789	2,732
West Lothian	2,667	2,628	2,630	2,336	2,697	3,302	3,284	4,402	4,474	4,568
ALL SCOTLAND	76,766	73,284	77,316	81,473	90,203	91,333	95,663	119,855	120,340	121,676

Note: 1. Data from 2004-05 shows the impact of the implementation of the Scottish Crime Recording Standard, which was expected to increase the numbers of minor crimes recorded by the police.

Total Number of Crimes of Handling an Offensive Weapon Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	195	195	216	213	245	303	328	329	309	331
Aberdeenshire	124	146	137	174	140	147	144	182	169	170
Angus	119	103	113	93	80	52	35	62	74	72
Argyll and Bute	59	69	84	81	78	96	79	109	103	163
City of Edinburgh	334	391	480	561	622	594	626	625	748	807
City of Glasgow	1,865	2,405	2,762	2,639	3,000	3,327	3,333	3,184	3,112	3,020
Clackmannanshire	24	31	47	44	76	107	79	83	89	138
Dumfries and Galloway	200	166	159	129	119	133	159	117	137	159
Dundee City	309	355	317	302	223	145	167	182	186	190
East Ayrshire	113	166	146	155	217	219	177	218	240	217
East Dunbartonshire	97	105	71	83	91	97	94	118	129	119
East Lothian	55	42	61	76	78	96	67	52	66	139
East Renfrewshire	57	58	96	55	78	96	83	123	76	96
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	11	19	10	6	8	7	12	10	19	16
Falkirk	121	108	125	116	168	169	184	203	164	222
Fife	296	265	346	426	430	220	235	271	273	341
Highland	197	186	248	207	261	256	235	252	282	360
Inverclyde	111	161	163	256	366	335	293	308	247	237
Midlothian	49	50	70	62	66	70	85	84	106	135
Moray	44	58	67	84	91	90	105	104	110	104
North Ayrshire	181	223	184	230	233	277	275	297	345	338
North Lanarkshire	353	385	439	393	525	545	537	632	669	684
Orkney Islands	8	7	10	8	3	3	4	4	10	10
Perth and Kinross	171	165	156	124	98	72	57	115	75	84
Renfrewshire	244	320	358	316	346	415	390	380	401	397
Scottish Borders	60	72	78	98	108	104	131	115	103	120
Shetland Islands	8	16	8	7	17	12	4	21	19	19
South Ayrshire	112	107	150	132	146	124	94	107	145	183
South Lanarkshire	372	460	608	578	633	685	645	641	586	589
Stirling	52	66	59	78	101	135	135	123	125	139
West Dunbartonshire	138	127	213	190	200	261	318	290	324	300
West Lothian	112	75	103	154	192	170	168	204	187	211
All Scotland	6,191	7,102	8,084	8,070	9,039	9,362	9,278	9,545	9,628	10,110

Total Number of Drug Crimes Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	1,754	1,693	1,469	1,199	1,719	2,127	1,680	1,844	1,992	1,915
Aberdeenshire	924	921	632	710	805	784	731	791	864	659
Angus	445	418	352	337	423	467	574	617	678	658
Argyll and Bute	344	409	418	434	397	544	608	579	655	690
City of Edinburgh	2,335	2,298	2,801	2,945	3,151	3,729	3,220	3,274	3,550	4,304
City of Glasgow	7,246	8,311	7,881	8,764	9,317	9,587	10,363	9,758	10,741	8,863
Clackmannanshire	214	289	173	272	288	387	353	296	388	435
Dumfries and Galloway	910	869	615	498	589	779	1,002	935	949	1,042
Dundee City	825	817	705	716	1,015	1,186	1,407	1,553	1,582	1,445
East Ayrshire	580	634	791	749	867	977	879	912	1,065	945
East Dunbartonshire	296	320	284	337	460	476	473	548	399	336
East Lothian	222	177	189	370	220	562	325	401	347	283
East Renfrewshire	230	289	355	404	307	301	327	268	320	282
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	75	92	78	43	120	92	102	125	230	146
Falkirk	609	743	639	650	807	880	987	989	1,016	908
Fife	1,817	2,095	1,203	1,359	1,715	1,960	1,924	2,024	1,992	2,050
Highland	1,293	1,036	1,213	1,033	1,451	1,436	1,671	1,442	1,856	2,367
Inverclyde	830	853	753	966	978	1,126	1,057	1,218	932	1,103
Midlothian	367	299	309	420	418	427	375	457	412	433
Moray	281	266	230	277	262	347	380	402	432	347
North Ayrshire	680	825	735	845	887	1,046	1,140	1,256	1,361	1,235
North Lanarkshire	1,583	2,174	1,987	1,969	2,211	3,162	3,129	2,878	3,067	2,420
Orkney Islands	59	38	58	23	47	34	52	50	30	26
Perth and Kinross	795	896	663	659	809	930	1,103	1,280	1,063	1,021
Renfrewshire	950	1,478	1,253	999	1,190	1,321	1,142	1,036	1,140	1,759
Scottish Borders	337	459	726	651	718	591	683	748	806	675
Shetland Islands	84	63	103	89	83	91	135	105	113	127
South Ayrshire	574	839	670	645	887	980	715	743	871	829
South Lanarkshire	1,204	1,298	1,426	1,604	1,867	1,823	2,602	2,580	2,589	2,298
Stirling	305	454	307	559	768	760	760	666	629	590
West Dunbartonshire	700	653	527	683	784	942	1,178	1,014	1,089	1,300
West Lothian	567	813	829	872	1,190	1,084	1,198	1,034	1,089	931
All Scotland	29,435	32,819	30,374	32,081	36,750	40,938	42,275	41,823	44,247	42,422

Total Number of Homicides Recorded by the Police, 1997-98 to 2006-07, by Local Authority Area

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	3	3	7	4	1	5	5	4	2	5
Aberdeenshire	0	1	2	7	0	2	2	4	0	2
Angus	0	2	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	0
Argyll and Bute	3	1	4	2	2	1	2	2	0	1
City of Edinburgh	11	10	7	6	8	10	6	12	9	11
City of Glasgow	32	30	40	32	34	41	33	42	31	33
Clackmannanshire	3	2	0	1	2	1	0	2	0	3
Dumfries and Galloway	1	2	4	8	5	0	3	3	3	0
Dundee City	4	2	2	2	5	6	2	2	5	3
East Ayrshire	4	1	5	2	2	2	3	0	1	2
East Dunbartonshire	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
East Lothian	3	1	7	0	1	3	3	3	0	1
East Renfrewshire	1	1	3	3	0	4	1	1	1	0
Eilean Siar (W.Isles)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Falkirk	1	2	1	3	1	5	1	2	3	1
Fife	1	3	2	3	2	2	3	4	1	6
Highland	0	3	3	2	2	3	2	7	2	3
Inverclyde	1	3	2	2	4	2	7	2	3	7
Midlothian	0	1	1	1	1	1	4	1	1	1
Moray	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	2
North Ayrshire	3	4	5	7	2	3	3	3	4	3
North Lanarkshire	6	8	13	6	6	5	6	11	6	10
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Perth and Kinross	1	0	1	3	1	2	1	0	0	1
Renfrewshire	7	3	3	5	5	8	9	8	7	5
Scottish Borders	1	1	0	1	2	0	1	2	0	0
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1
South Ayrshire	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	3	0	3
South Lanarkshire	3	6	6	3	11	8	4	7	8	9
Stirling	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
West Dunbartonshire	7	2	2	1	3	3	3	4	1	4
West Lothian	2	2	0	4	2	3	2	7	1	3
All Scotland	102	96	127	113	111	123	107	142	95	121

Question reference: S3W-08430

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 13 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much per head has been spent on (a) health, (b) school education, (c) justice and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, (d) transport and (e) enterprise and lifelong learning in each of the last 10 years.

The informationrequested is set out in the following tables:

(a) Spend perHead on Health (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
856	904	974	1,063	1,231	1,342	1,418	1,610	1,741	1,837

(b) Spend perHead on School Education (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
425	446	480	601	660	704	771	830	890	1,023

(c1) Spendper head on Justice (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
170	171	182	194	205	223	235	270	292	291

(c2) Spend perHead on Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
9	10	10	11	13	16	17	17	18	20

(d) Spend perHead on Transport (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
36	35	52	72	92	104	146	160	160	321

(e) Spend perHead on Enterprise and Lifelong Learning (£)

1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
350	360	400	400	410	450	460	520	520	550

Question reference: S3W-08431

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24534 by Tom McCabe on 21 April 2006, whether it will publish comparative data on total managed expenditure in real terms for each year from 1996-97 to 2010-11, broken down by department.

The information is shown in thefollowing table. It should be noted that there will be slight differences from thedata provided in the response to question S2W-24534 mainly as a result of the ScottishGovernment restructuring last year and the rebasing of real terms numbers to 2007-08prices.

	1996-97 Outturn (£ Million)	1997-98 Outturn (£ Million)	1998-99 Outturn (£ Million)	1999-2000 Outturn (£ Million)	2000-01 Outturn (£ Million)
OFM	153	157	146	145	143
Finance and Sustainable Growth (inc Local Government)	8,526	7,972	7,762	7,985	8,083
Health and Wellbeing	6,031	5,971	6,118	6,197	6,563
Education and Lifelong Learning	1,623	1,714	1,697	1,867	2,066
Justice	1,053	1,065	1,046	1,124	1,137
Rural Affairs and the Environment	282	314	309	299	295
Administration	224	191	199	209	213
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal	63	60	64	64	67
General Register Office of Scotland	3	7	6	6	12
National Archives of Scotland	7	6	4	5	7
Off of the Scottish Charity Regulator	-	-	-	-	-
Forestry Commission (Scotland)	-	-	-	25	41
Food Standards Agency	-	-	-	-	4
Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body	-	-	8	56	77
Audit Scotland	-	-	-	-	5
Total Budget	17,964	17,456	17,357	17,982	18,713

	2001-02 Outturn (£ Million)	2002-03 Outturn (£ Million)	2003-04 Outturn (£ Million)	2004-05 Outturn (£ Million)	2005-06 Outturn (£ Million)
OFM	162	162	177	193	203
Finance and Sustainable Growth (inc Local Government)	8,693	9,264	10,025	9,754	10,223
Health and Wellbeing	7,363	7,951	7,955	8,474	8,838
Education and Lifelong Learning	2,339	2,417	2,303	2,489	2,601
Justice	1,248	1,230	1,286	1,457	1,520
Rural Affairs and the Environment	404	403	518	482	521
Administration	250	220	229	246	254
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal	76	91	94	92	91
General Register Office of Scotland	5	8	7	5	9
National Archives of Scotland	9	11	10	7	6
Off of the Scottish Charity Regulator	-	-	-	-	-
Forestry Commission (Scotland)	27	45	47	50	52
Food Standards Agency	7	5	7	8	11
Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body	162	170	204	177	66
Audit Scotland	5	6	7	9	5
Total Budget	20,750	21,624	22,868	23,445	24,399

	2006-07 Prov. Outturn (£ Million)	2007-08 Budget (£ Million)	2008-09 Plans (£ Million)	2009-10 Plans (£ Million)	2010-11 Plans (£ Million)
OFM	220	253	241	247	250
Finance and Sustainable Growth (inc Local Government)	10,809	10,980	12,215	12,463	12,756
Health and Wellbeing	9,376	9,652	9,296	9,538	9,519
Education and Lifelong Learning	3,029	3,047	2,349	2,363	2,388
Justice	1,501	1,534	1,610	1,637	1,622
Rural Affairs and the Environment	514	603	491	495	493
Administration	241	245	219	218	218
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal	102	98	103	108	107
General Register Office of Scotland	8	12	10	13	19
National Archives of Scotland	9	11	9	8	8
Off of the Scottish Charity Regulator	3	3	3	3	3
Forestry Commission (Scotland)	73	75	70	72	72
Food Standards Agency	11	10	10	10	11
Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body	71	71	73	73	73
Audit Scotland	11	10	7	7	7
Total Budget	25,977	26,680	26,707	27,256	27,548

Notes:

1. This Table updates the informationpreviously provided in the comparative trend data which was published on the ScottishGovernment website in October 2004 (and updated in the response to question S2W-24534).While the data is mostly comparative over the period, and can in many cases be reconciledwith previously published information, it does not accurately reflect the accounts.This data should, therefore, only be used as a tool for identifying trends in expenditure.A more accurate reflection of expenditure trends over the last 10 years or so canbe found in Annex B of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007.

2. All numbers are on a cashand accruals basis (i.e. capital charges have been excluded).

3. NHS (Scotland) andScottish Teacher’s pension income and expenditure has been excluded from calculations

4. As CAP Market Support andEuropean Structural Funds budgets are offset in DEL, from 2006-07 onwards, by fundingfrom Europe, for comparative purposes the expenditure has been omitted from thistable for all years.

5. Other one-off expenditurehas also been excluded.

6. Transfers between portfolioshave where possible been made for all years on the basis of the 2007-08 positionfor comparability.

7. Figures at 2007-08 pricesusing GDP deflators as at 20 December 2007.

Question reference: S3W-08904

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 7 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the existing national planning guidance on renewable energy developments.

The Scottish Government believesthat Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 6 Renewable Energy provides a sound nationalpolicy context for addressing onshore wind development and there are no plans toreview it.

Since the publication of SPP6and to facilitate its implementation, ministers have confirmed that additional supportand guidance will be made available to planning authorities. A team of consultantswere appointed by the Scottish Government at the beginning of 2008 for a periodto 12 months to provide expert advice and support on the preparation of supplementaryplanning guidance for wind farms, including spatial frameworks. To further assistthe authorities, national guidance on the preparation of the authorities’ supplementaryplanning guidance will be issued in the near future.

Question reference: S3W-08903

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to reduce the number of speculative planning applications for onshore wind farms.

Question reference: S3W-08905

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports national or local locational guidance for siting onshore wind farm developments.

The Scottish Government believes that Scottish Planning Policy (SPP6) Renewable Energy provides a sound national policy context for addressing onshore wind development. We want to see the SPP''s provisions taken forward urgently, with local authorities engaging with communities and other parties in the preparation of locational strategies in the form of supplementary planning guidance. These local frameworks should provide greater certainty for developers and local communities and speed up the decision process. We see this approach as striking the right balance between national and local responsibilities.

Question reference: S3W-08902

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what impact it considers the number and scale of applications for onshore wind farms in Argyll and Bute would have on the landscape, quality of life and tourism in the area if implemented.

Question reference: S3W-08901

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with the number and scale of applications for onshore wind farms in Argyll and Bute.

There are no localtargets for onshore wind farm developments. Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 6, RenewableEnergy confirms that the target for the percentage of Scotland’s electricity tobe generated from renewable sources should not be regarded as a cap.

Development plan policiesfor wind farms should be based on the principle that wind farms should be accommodatedwhere the technology can operate efficiently and environmental and cumulative impactscan be addressed satisfactorily.

Question reference: S3W-08774

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities will consider the use of student contributions towards university funding.

Question reference: S3W-08772

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive when and to whom the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities will report.

The intention is for the finalmeeting of the taskforce to take place in June. The taskforce will report as soonas is feasible after that meeting. I expect the outcomes to be reported to the ScottishGovernment’s Cabinet, amongst others and I would also expect our work to be publishedin due course. In addition, I plan to keep members of the further and highereducation roundtable updated with its progress.

Seòmar agus comataidhean