§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the numbers and percentage of prisoners currently in Scottish prisons for offences involving (a) homicide, (b) assault or other attacks against the person, (c) rape, (d) other sexual offences involving assault, (e) sexual offences not involving assault, (f) housebreaking, robbery and theft, (g) shoplifting, (h) motoring offences, (i) breach of the peace and (j) licensing offences.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThis information is not available. Analyses of the offences committed by persons received each year are published in the annual reports on prisons in Scotland, of which the report for 1981, Cmnd. 8618, was published in August 1982.
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§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number and percentage of prisoners currently in Scottish prisons through failure to pay a fine imposed by the courts in Scotland.
§ Mr. Allan StewartDuring December 1982, there were on average 246 persons on Scottish penal establishments serving sentences of imprisonment or detention in a young offenders institution in default of payment of a fine; these constituted 4.8 per cent. of the total number of persons in penal establishments.