HC Deb 18 November 1991 vol 199 c38W
Mrs. Golding

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people were(a) prosecuted for begging, (b) convicted of begging, (c) prosecuted for sleeping rough and (d) convicted of sleeping rough in each police district in Scotland in the year ending 31 December 1990.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Neither begging nor sleeping rough is, by itself, a criminal offence in Scotland.