HC Deb 16 June 1986 vol 99 cc419-21W
Mr. Craigen

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give details of the number and percentage of criminal legal aid cases refused in each sheriffdom and in each legal aid committee area in Scotland in the last year for which figures are available and an indication of what these offences related to.

Mr. John MacKay

The information on refusals of criminal legal aid is not readily available in the form requested. The following tables give details for each Sheriff and District Court for 1984–85. Information about the offences for which legal aid was refused is not available.

Table A
Sheriff Courts
Court Number refused Per cent. refused
Aberdeen 381 13
Airdrie 318 26
Alloa 41 11
Arbroath 14 5
Ayr 109 6
Banff 7 8
Campbeltown 3 12
Cupar 25 8
Dingwall 0 0
Dornoch 3 2
Dumbarton 79 5
Dumfries 84 9
Dundee 672 32
Dunfermline 331 28
Dunoon 15 6
Duns 7 18
Edinburgh 436 8
Elgin 20 4
Falkirk 78 6
Forfar 36 11
Fort William 8 4
Glasgow 409 4
Greenock 29 3
Haddington 47 10
Hamilton 252 9
Inverness 31 3
Jedburgh 27 14
Kilmarnock 843 31
Kirkcaldy 30 3
Kirkcudbright 1 2
Kirkwall 0 0
Lanark 9 3
Lerwick 2 2
Linlithgow 101 9
Lochmaddy 0 0
Oban 12 7
Paisley 474 21
Peebles 8 9
Perth 34 2
Peterhead 9 4
Portree 4 5
Rothesay 0 0
Selkirk 14 8
Stirling 43 5
Stonehaven 36 16
Stornoway 14 8
Stranraer 16 4
Tain 5 2
Wick 3 1
Table B
District courts
Court Number refused Per cent. refused
Aberdeen, City of 99 15
Angus 11 7
Annandale and Eskdale 1 1
Argyll and Bute 8 5
Baddenoch and Strathspey 2 17
Banff and Buchan 1 1
Bearsden and Milngavie 1 4
Berwickshire 0 0
Caithness 10 36
Clackmannan 2 3
Clydebank 16 9
Court Number refused Per cent. refused
Clydesdale 0 0
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 22 23
Cumnock and Doon Valley 39 17
Cunninghame 27 3
Dumbarton 4 1
Dundee, City of 241 29
Dunfermline 24 8
East Kilbride 33 12
East Lothian 40 31
Eastwood 0 0
Edinburgh, City of 579 38
Ettrick and Lauderdale 14 23
Falkirk 44 19
Glasgow, City of 173 2
Gordon 7 13
Hamilton 126 24
Inverclyde 36 11
Inverness 3 1
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 43 9
Kincardine and Deeside 1 3
Kirkcaldy 1 (0.4)
Kyle and Carrick 118 25
Lochaber 11 19
Midlothian 14 5
Monklands 94 22
Moray 38 29
Motherwell 166 19
Nairn 2 8
Nithsdale 16 17
North East Fife 10 9
Perth and Kinross 4 1
Renfrew 58 15
Ross and Cromarty 7 7
Roxburgh 3 6
Skye and Lochalsh 2 15
Stewartry 1 3
Stirling 11 9
Strathkelvin 2 1
Sutherland 0 0
Tweeddale 1 17
Western Isles 1 3
West Lothian 22 4
Wigtown 3 4