§ Mr. Dewarasked the Solicitor-General for Scotland if he will give the number of degrees in summary cause issued by Scottish courts last year and in each of the previous five years.
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§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandThe number of summary causes disposed of in 1984 (the latest year for which figures are available) and the previous five years is set out in the following table:
Number 1979 117,005 1980 134,724 1981 109,153 1982 146,061 1983 130,570 1984 125,138 Those figures are drawn from the annual publication of Civil Judicial Statistics, Scotland where there is no separate figure for cases disposed of by decree as opposed to cases taken out of court.