§ Mr. Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give figures showing the proportion of 17-year-olds in Scotland who entered higher education in each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Allan StewartInformation of the kind requested is normally presented in the form of an age participation index, showing the number of entrants aged under 21 to higher education in any particular year expressed as a percentage of the 17-year-old population in the preceding year. The age participation indices for the years requested are given below.
Age participation index 1975–76 17.5 1976–77 16.8 1977–78 17.0 1978–79 17.0 1979–80 16.8 1980–81 18.0 1981–82 18.1 1982–83 18.0 1983–84 18.7 1984–85 19.3
Crimes Recorded by Police Force Area, Scotland 1978 Crime Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Lothian and Borders Northern Strathclyde Tayside Scotland Total Total Crimes 13,461 5,167 11,903 21,904 58,748 8,126 192,348 23,330 334,957 Violence against the person 273 253 258 525 756 252 4,563 586 7,466 Burglary 2,711 810 2,193 3,264 11,712 1,037 49,811 4,072 75,710 Theft 6,594 2,544 6,098 11,603 33,740 4,100 93,878 12,066 170,623 Fraud and forgery 501 337 646 1,067 3,976 541 5,542 968 13,578 Criminal damage 2,745 1,021 1,998 4,038 6,610 1,453 28,825 4,297 50,987 Notes:
The categories listed above have been derived from the categories of the Scottish crime classification as follows:
"Violence against the person": all non-sexual crimes of violence (group 1 of the standard classification) apart from robbery, those crimes of indecency (group 2) which contain a violent element, and certain crimes involving malicious and reckless conduct.
"Burglary": housebreaking.
"Theft": opening lockfast places and clandestine removal in addition to theft per se.
"Fraud and forgery": fraud, forgery and uttering, bankruptcy and currency offences.
"Criminal damage": fire-raising, vandalism and other crimes of malicious and reckless conduct not involving violence against the person.