To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many cases of alleged planting of evidence were made in 1989 against the police in Scotland; and how many of these resulted in prosecutions.

I understand from inquiries made of chief constables that in 1989 five cases of alleged planting of evidence involving the police in Scotland were reported to the procurator fiscal. No proceedings were taken in three cases; the remaining two are still under consideration by the procurator fiscal.