§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the numbers of children in age categories eight to 15 years and youths 16 to 20 years who have been convicted of offences in each of the last five years in(a) Dundee, (b) Tayside and (c) Scotland.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonFigures for the last five years for which information is available are given in the table.
(g) drugs, indicating their percentage of total recorded offences, in (i) Dundee, (ii) Tayside and (iii) Scotland, in each of the past five years for which figures are available.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information requested is given in the table.
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Number Percentage 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 (c) Dishonesty 13,082 15,252 15,888 15,379 16,540 41.0 44.3 45.4 44.0 44.1 (d) Fire-raising and vandalism 3,300 3,423 3,278 2,898 3,623 10.3 9.9 9.4 8.3 9.7 (e) Theft of motor vehicles 652 605 545 563 585 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.6 1.6 (f) Theft by opening lockfast places 1,649 2,185 2,478 2,977 3,708 5.2 6.3 7.1 8.5 9.9 (g) Drugs 160 193 265 311 420 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.1 (ii) Tayside (a) Indecency 380 387 417 424 475 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 (b) Violence 971 949 1,048 1,095 1,088 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.5 (c) Dishonesty 22,441 25,378 25,996 24,260 25,982 36.7 39.2 38.6 35.2 37.0 (d) Fire-raising and vandalism 6,547 6,782 6,601 6,122 7,021 10.7 10.5 9.8 8.9 10.0 (e) Theft of motor vehicles 1,215 1,122 1,044 958 1,049 2.0 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.5 (f) Theft by opening lockfast places 2,718 3,369 3,656 4,207 4,785 4.4 5.2 5.4 6.1 6.8 (g) Drugs 319 368 470 561 646 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 (iii) Scotland (a) Indecency 5,741 5,354 5,266 5,057 5,742 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 (b) Violence 15,090 15,705 18,350 17,871 18,374 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.1 2.0 (c) Dishonesty 342,349 342,522 356,527 344,509 355,525 42.8 41.7 41.5 40.3 39.4 (d) Fire-raising and vandalism 79,545 78,891 76,444 73,518 79,062 9.9 9.6 8.9 8.6 8.8 (e) Theft of motor vehicles 29,938 28,036 26,183 26,395 29,064 3.7 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.2 (f) Theft by opening lockfast places 52,065 61,402 68,979 77,503 84,748 6.5 7.5 8.0 9.1 9.4 (g) Drugs 5,078 5,318 4,736 5,213 7,024 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.8 Notes:
1. Under violence are included all crimes in group 1 of The Scottish Office Home and Health Department (SOHHD) classification of crimes and offences.
2. Under fire-raising and vandalism are included all crimes in group 4 of the SOHHD classification.
3. Under theft by opening lockfast places are included opening lockfast places with intent to steal and attempted opening lockfast places with intent to steal.
4. Crimes in (e) and (f) above are included with other crimes of dishonesty in (c).
5. Details of the SOHHD classification are given in the SOHHD statistical bulletin "Recorded crime in Scotland 1989", a copy of which is in the Library.