To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state, in respect of each procurator fiscal office, the number of police reports received in 1989 and the actual number and percentage marked no proceedings.
The number of reports submitted by the police and other reporting agencies to procurators fiscal which were marked "no proceedings" in each procurator fiscal office for 1989 is as follows:
Reports
| No Proceedings
| Percentage
| |
| Aberdeen | 14,411 | 820 | 5.69 |
| Airdrie | 9,295 | 768 | 8.26 |
| Alloa | 3,226 | 306 | 9.49 |
| Arbroath | 2,644 | 152 | 5.75 |
| Ayr | 11,953 | 1,175 | 9.83 |
| Banff | 1,140 | 59 | 5.18 |
| Campbeltown | 803 | 78 | 9.71 |
| Cupar | 3,288 | 274 | 8.33 |
| Dingwall | 1,969 | 179 | 9.09 |
| Dornoch | 660 | 44 | 6.67 |
| Dumbarton | 9,137 | 602 | 6.59 |
| Dumfries | 7,073 | 288 | 4.07 |
| Dundee | 13,812 | 2,261 | 16.37 |
| Dunfermline | 8,395 | 615 | 7.33 |
| Dunoon | 1,463 | 185 | 12.65 |
| Duns | 1,388 | 93 | 6.70 |
| Edinburgh | 41,411 | 4,029 | 9.73 |
| Elgin | 4,956 | 530 | 10.69 |
| Falkirk | 11,329 | 1,606 | 14.18 |
| Forfar | 3,403 | 125 | 3.67 |
| Fort William | 1,804 | 118 | 6.54 |
| Glasgow | 82,948 | 19,066 | 22.99 |
| Greenock | 7,573 | 406 | 5.36 |
| Haddington | 4,785 | 466 | 9.74 |
| Hamilton | 28,404 | 2,486 | 8.75 |
| Inverness | 6,593 | 625 | 9.48 |
| Jedburgh | 1,872 | 138 | 7.37 |
| Kilmarnock | 14,099 | 1,164 | 8.26 |
| Kirkcaldy | 9,443 | 517 | 5.47 |
| Kirkcudbright | 1,411 | 35 | 2.48 |
| Kirkwall | 664 | 56 | 8.43 |
| Lanark | 5,254 | 1,194 | 22.73 |
| Lerwick | 1,007 | 137 | 13.60 |
| Linlithgow | 9,928 | 457 | 4.60 |
| Lochmaddy | 244 | 13 | 5.33 |
| Oban | 1,174 | 74 | 6.30 |
| Paisley | 12,935 | 921 | 7.12 |
| Peebles | 1,126 | 61 | 5.42 |
| Perth | 8,908 | 1,211 | 13.59 |
| Peterhead | 2,731 | 273 | 10.00 |
| Portree | 586 | 35 | 5.97 |
| Rothsay | 373 | 58 | 15.55 |
| Selkirk | 2,280 | 228 | 10.00 |
| Stirling | 7,623 | 422 | 5.54 |
| Stonehaven | 3,119 | 202 | 6.48 |
| Stornoway | 1,027 | 20 | 1.95 |
| Stranraer | 2,336 | 243 | 10.40 |
| Tain | 1,464 | 163 | 11.13 |
| Wick | 1,218 | 114 | 9.36 |
| Total 1989 | 374,685 | 45,092 | 12.03 |