§ Mr. HAZLETONasked the Lord Advocate whether he will state the number of indictable offences known to the police in Scotland during the year 1907 and the number of such offences per 100,000 of the population, the number of persons convicted for such offences, with the number of convictions per cent, of the offences known to the police, and the number and percentage of such offences for which no persons were made amenable?
§ Mr. UREThe law of Scotland does not enable me to distinguish indictable from non-indictable offences, but the number of persons tried on indictment in Scotland in 1907 was 2,235 (or 50 per 100,000 of the population), of whom 2,012 were convicted.