§ Sir J. Gilmourasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by counties and cities in Scotland the number of persons convicted of inability to drive 276W through drink or drugs for each of the last three years.
§ Mr. RossFigures for the last three years available of the number of persons convicted in Scotland of driving while incapacitated by drink or drugs are:—
1962 2,780 1963 3,042 1964 3,256 A geographical breakdown of these figures could not be made without undue work. The following table gives, by police areas, the number of cases in which proceedings for this offence were taken:
1962 1963 1964 Total 3,081 3,358 3,527 Counties of Cities Aberdeen 93 101 141 Dundee 111 106 125 Edinburgh 278 383 367 Glasgow 999 942 972 Large Burghs Airdrie 15 21 18 Ayr 8 28 33 Coatbridge 23 31 29 Greenock 42 43 52 Hamilton 20 20 19 Inverness 29 34 46 Kilmarnock 22 33 29 Motherwell and Wishaw 9 18 26 Paisley 27 22 14 Counties Angus 61 48 49 Argyll 52 89 85 Ayr 118 150 140 Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk 21 32 39 Caithness 44 33 49 Dumfries and Galloway 37 65 68 Dunbarton 83 85 78 Fife 94 101 110 Inverness 66 94 65 Lanark 232 228 250 Lothians and Peebles 96 121 110 Orkney 4 3 6 Perth and Kinross 67 80 81 Renfrew and Bute 76 59 86 Ross and Sutherland 50 52 74 Scottish North Eastern Counties 185 177 222 Stirling and Clackmannan 117 156 140 Zetland 2 3 4