HC Deb 01 March 1966 vol 725 cc275-6W
Sir J. Gilmour

asked 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 through drink or drugs for each of the last three years.

Mr. Ross

Figures 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

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