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Written Question · S2W-18270 · Session 2

How many prosecutions have taken place for under age drinking in each year since 1990, broken down by police force area.

Answered Asked by Stewart Stevenson SNP Lodged 1 Aug 2005

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have taken place for under age drinking in each year since 1990, broken down by police force area.

The answer

Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 Aug 2005 · 17 days after it was lodged, on time

The available information is given in the following table.
Persons Proceeded Against for Under-Age Drinking1,2, by Police Force Area,
1990-2003
Police Force
| 1990
| 1991
| 1992
| 1993
| 1994
| 1995
| 1996
| 1997
| 1998
| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003

Central
| 3
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 6
| 3

Dumfries and Galloway
| 2
| 1
| 4
| 0
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 0

Fife
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 2
| 5
| 0
| 2
| 1
| 6

Grampian
| 8
| 9
| 6
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0

Lothian and Borders
| 20
| 9
| 1
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 4
| 2
| 4
| 4
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 3

Northern
| 12
| 6
| 5
| 5
| 2
| 7
| 5
| 7
| 3
| 3
| 0
| 1
| 7
|

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