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Mr. Menzies Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by court the number of summary criminal cases dealt with in the sheriff court in Scotland in the last five years for which information is available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
[holding answer 20 April 1988]: The number of accused persons proceeded against summarily in each of the sheriff courts in Scotland over the last five years was as follows:
Mr. Menzies Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State For Scotland if he will list by court the number of criminal cases dealt with by solemn procedure in the sheriff court in Scotland in the last five years for which information is available.
| Court | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 |
| Aberdeen | 199 | 235 | 208 | 157 | 144 |
| Airdrie | 93 | 105 | 122 | 155 | 147 |
| Alloa | 10 | 15 | 22 | 18 | 11 |
| Arbroath | 36 | 25 | 32 | 41 | 21 |
| Ayr | 63 | 50 | 76 | 86 | 72 |
| Banff | 20 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| Cambeltown | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Cupar | 13 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 19 |
| Dingwall | 8 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 9 |
| Dornoch | 4 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 3 |
| Dumbarton | 54 | 68 | 51 | 66 | 54 |
| Dumfries | 44 | 45 | 43 | 66 | 76 |
| Dundee | 156 | 154 | 122 | 118 | 164 |
| Dunfermline | 74 | 57 | 54 | 50 | 57 |
| Dunoon | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 14 |
| Duns | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| Edinburgh | 431 | 424 | 327 | 273 | 283 |
| Elgin | 25 | 29 | 21 | 26 | 32 |
| Falkirk | 60 | 60 | 41 | 51 | 68 |
| Forfar | 17 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Fort William | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Glasgow | 1,057 | 1,088 | 994 | 857 | 990 |
| Greenock | 106 | 130 | 82 | 99 | 75 |
| Haddington | 13 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
| Hamilton | 147 | 140 | 159 | 166 | 181 |
| Inverness | 31 | 46 | 29 | 53 | 55 |
| Jedburgh | 9 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 10 |
| Kilmarnock | 137 | 112 | 111 | 97 | 91 |
| Kirkcaldy | 78 | 68 | 95 | 95 | 53 |
| Kirkcudbright | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 9 |
| Kirkwall | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Lanark | 14 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 18 |
| Lenvick | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Linlithgow | 37 | 37 | 60 | 58 | 60 |
| Lochmaddy | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Oban | 10 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 17 |
| Paisley | 152 | 196 | 152 | 96 | 118 |
| Peebles | 9 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| Perth | 68 | 56 | 76 | 65 | 50 |
| Peterhead | 17 | 22 | 27 | 19 | 15 |
| Portree | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Rothesay | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| Selkirk | 11 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 13 |
| Stirling | 31 | 48 | 39 | 36 | 30 |
| Stonehaven | 11 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 14 |
| Stornoway | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Stranraer | 17 | 22 | 35 | 23 | 40 |
| Tain | 8 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| Wick | 5 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 5 |
| Total | 3,317 | 3,466 | 3,185 | 2,983 | 3,098 |