§ Mr. Dewarasked the Solicitor-General for Scotland if he will publish a table showing for each of the last 10 years the number of (i) warrant sales, (ii) occasions on which warrant sales have been advertised and (iii) poindings in Scotland.
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandThe information available in the successive annual publications ofCivil Judicial Statistics, Scotland is as follows:
Warrant Sales Poindings 1979 226 14,515 1980 231 21,096 1981 287 14,926 1982 403 17,014 1983 477 16,478 1984 512 16,887 No separate figures are available for years before 1979. There is a requirement to give public notice of all warrant sales.