§ Mr. Adam Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of convictions for the misuse of drugs in each of the county areas, including the counties of cities, in Scotland during 1970.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe number of persons convicted or found guilty of offences against drugs legislation in each of the police areas in Scotland during 1970 is shown in the table below. Separate figures by counties are not available without undue expenditure of time and diversion of work.
CONTRAVENTION OF DRUGS (PREVENTION OF MISUSE) ACT 1964 AND DANGEROUS DRUGS ACTS 1965 AND 1967 Police area Number of persons convicted or found guilty TOTAL … 322 Counties of cities Aberdeen … 16 Dundee … 6 Edinburgh … 117 Glasgow … 125 Counties Angus … — Argyll … — Ayr … 1 Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk … — Northern counties … — Dumfries and Galloway … 2 Dunbarton … 1 Fife … 10 Inverness … 12 Lanark … 1 Lothians and Peebles … 4 Perth and Kinross … — Renfrew and Bute … 13 Ross and Sutherland … — Scottish North Eastern counties … 2 Stirling and Clackmannan … 12