§ Ms Roseanna CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what estimate he has made for each area of the average time between receipt of police reports at the office of the Procurator Fiscal and the commencement of proceedings, in each of the last five years; [78803]
(2) in each of the last five years, for those police reports made to procurators fiscal for which there were proceedings, what was the average time, area by area, between receipt of the report and commencement of proceedings for (a) district court summary cases, (b) sheriff court summary cases, (c) solemn cases at sheriff court and (d) High Court cases. [78805]
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§ Mr. McLeish[holding answer 29 March 1999]: A single average for all cases is not readily available. Nor are we able to provide without disproportionate cost an average time for solemn cases.
I have prepared tables containing average time between receipt of reports of crime and service of complaints in relation to summary cases in Sheriff and District Courts by Procurators Fiscal in each of the last 5 years (up to February 1999). As the information is rather lengthy, I am placing copies in the House Library.
From 1 July 1999, this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.
§ Ms Roseanna CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total number of police reports made to procurators fiscal in each year since 1994; and how many of those were marked "no proceedings". [78804]
§ Mr. McLeish[holding answer 29 March 1999]: I have prepared tables containing the total number of reports of crime made to Procurators Fiscal in each year since 1994 (to February 1999), and those marked "no proceedings". As the information is rather lengthy, I am placing copies in the House Library.
From 1 July 1999, this will be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.