§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a table of statistics in the OFFICIAL REPORT showing the number of murders in Scotland in each of the last nine years, indicating how many such murders involved an assailant or victim who was either drunk or had been drinking excessive alcohol immediately prior to the crime.
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§ Mr. RossI do not think that it would be appropriate for me to attempt an authoritative estimate of the degree of intoxication of murderers and victims of murder. I am, however, grateful to the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Edinburgh University for a provisional assessment of Scottish murder cases which suggests that in the two years 1962 and 1963 4.9 per cent. of offenders had consumed a considerable amount of alvohol and 19.5 per cent. had consumed a lesser but significant amount, the comparable figures for victims being 2.4 per cent. and 14.4 per cent. The provisional assessment for the two years 1966 and 1967 suggests that 16.2 per cent. of offenders had consumed a considerable amount of alcohol and 29.4 per cent. had consumed a lesser but signifi-
PRODUCERS REGISTERED AND EGGS MARKETED BY THE BRITISH EGG MARKETING BOARD IN SCOTLAND 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Producers registered with the British Egg Marketing Board at 1st April each year to nearest thousand … … … … 27,000 22,000 23,000 18,000 18,000 Throughput of hen eggs of the British Egg Marketing Board in the 12 month period ending on 31st March each year to nearest thousand cases* … … … … 1,636,000 1,563,000 1,474,000 1,363,000 1,302,000 * One case of eggs contains 360 eggs.