§ Mr. Craigenasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the toll bridges in Scotland, the current toll charge, the number of employees and the outstanding debt charges.
§ Mr. RifkindThe current tolls and the latest available figures showing the debts at 31 March 1979 are set out below. The number of employees at Erskine is 52. The Forth and Tay road bridges are the responsibility of their respective joint boards, and I do not have information about their staff.
table. "Crimes" is the Scottish classification broadly equivalent to "indictable offences".
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PRINCIPAL SUSPECTS CHARGED WITH CRIMES INVOLVING AIR WEAPONS, BY AGE, 1978 AND 1979 SCOTLAND Number of crimes 1978 1979* Under 14 years 40 21 Under 16 years 50 54 Under 17 years 22 29 Under 18 years 13 17 Under 21 years 17 26 Total 142 147 * Provisional.
§ Mr. Woolmerasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of fatal, serious or slight injuries caused by air weapons in 1979 and in each of the last 10 years in Scotland.
§ Mr. RifkindConsistent information on crimes involving the use of firearms is available for 1978 and 1979 only.
The information for 1978 is shown in "Criminal Statistics, Scotland 1978" Cmnd 7676, Chapter 4, Table 4.4
The information for 1979 is set out in the following table.
CRIMES INVOLVIVG INJURIES CAUSED BY AIR WEAPONS, 1979* Scotland Injury Number of crimes Fatal — Serious 35 Slight 204 Total 239 * Provisional