HC Deb 22 October 1991 vol 196 cc644-7W
Mr. David Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many young people of both sexes in each local authority area in Scotland have been referred to children's panels as a result of solvent abuse in each year since the Solvent Abuse (Scotland) Act 1983 came into effect.

Number of solvent abuse referrals to reporters by local authority area (1983–1990)
Region 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Total Total Total Total Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Berwickshire 4 2 1
Ettrick and Lauderdale 1 6 1 1
Roxburgh 2 11 2 2 2
Tweeddale 1 1 1 1 3 3
Borders total 4 3 1 20 3 2 3 3 3 1 1
Clackmannan 1 8 8 12 2 5 5 1 1 2 3 3
Falkirk 18 31 11 11 3 3 2 2 5 5 10
Stirling 3 4 8 4 1 5 5 4 4 1 1
Central total 4 30 47 27 14 13 13 7 1 8 9 5 14
Annandale and Eskdale 1
Nithsdale 6 1 1 1 1
Stewartry 1 1
Wigtown 1 1 1
Dumfries and Galloway total 6 3 1 2 1 1 1 1
Dunfermline 6 5 11 8 3 3 3 4 4
Kirkcaldy 2 18 14 9 7 3 1 4 2 2 3 3
North East Fife 1 1
Fife total 8 24 26 17 10 6 1 7 2 2 7 7
Aberdeen (City of) 12 8 32 12 4 3 2 5 2 3 5 12 12
Banff and Buchan 5 14 31 15 3 3 3 11 5 16
Gordon 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
Kincardine and Deeside 2 3 1 4 4 1 5
Moray 2 2 5 2 7 11 11
Grampian total 20 24 63 30 12 11 6 17 5 3 8 40 6 46
Badenoch and Strathspey 2
Caithness 1 3 9 1 1 2
Inverness 9 18 8 1 6 6 5 5 1 1
Lochaber 1 4 3
Nairn 3
Ross and Cromarty 1 2 1 5 6
Skye and Lochalsh 5
Sutherland
Highland total 12 21 14 7 13 7 1 8 7 6 13 1 1
East Lothian 2 4 11 8 2 c 2 7 5 1 6 1 2 3
Edinburgh (City of) 22 59 12 10 9 9 9 5 5 4 3 7
Midlothian 4 3 1 5 4 5 3 8 8 2 10 7 2 9
West Lothian 3 5 6 2 2 2 4 4 7 1 8
Lothian total 28 69 29 29 17 21 5 26 22 3 25 19 8 27
Orkney total
Shetland total 3 2 2
Argyll and Bute 4 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2
Bearsden and Milngavie 2 2
Clydebank 1 10 10 3 3 2 3 5 5 2 7
Clydesdale 8 3 3 6 6 7 1 8
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 3 8 1 2 3 3 3 1 1
Cumnock and Doon Valley 5 10 7 3 5 5
Cunninghame 21 18 4 20 15 4 19 11 11 10 6 16
Dumbarton 2 5 2 17 2 2 4 4 1 1 2
East Kilbride 2 5 1 1 1 1 3 3
Eastwood 3 1 2 1 1
Glasgow (City of) 10 258 206 227 170 87 9 96 70 3 73 56 21 77
Hamilton 26 6 10 3 5 3 8 19 1 20 1 2 3
Inverclyde 5 43 45 22 23 11 3 14 11 1 12 2 1 3
Kilmarnock and Loudon 14 8 36 3 3 3 3 3 1 1
Kyle and Carrick 6 6 10 4 1 1 13 1 14 5 3 8
Monklands 5 6 5 3 3 3 2 2
Motherwell 9 5 9 8 13 1 14 3 1 4 11 1 12

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The table details the number of solvent abuse referrals to reporters by local authority area. A breakdown by sex is available only for the years 1988, 1989 and 1990. The number of children referred is unavailable and the referrals may include some children referred more than once in the year.

Region 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Total Total Total Total Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Renfrew 2 55 60 46 45 11 1 12 10 2 12 29 10 39
Strathkelvin 3 1 2 2 4 1 4 5
Strathclyde total 17 458 386 391 329 158 25 183 161 18 179 138 52 190
Angus 4 3 3 5 5
Dundee (City of) 9 34 20 6 9 1 1 2 11 6 17 4 7 11
Perth and Kinross 3 7 3 1 1 6 6 10 10
Tayside total 9 37 31 9 9 2 1 3 20 6 26 19 7 26
Western Isles total 1

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