What percentage of the prison population is from each of the top 10 postcode areas where prisoners are from and what percentage of the tota…

I have asked MikeEwart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Unfortunately, wedo not currently hold information on the prison population in the form that hasbeen requested. The information that is currently available is the prisonpopulation at local authority level. The following table gives the populationof prisoners in custody on 30 June 2006 by the localauthority of their home address, for the local authorities which have the 10highest percentages of the total prison population. Also given is thepercentage of the total population of Scotland in each ofthese local authorities.
Local Authority
| Prison Population
| Percentage of Prison Population
| Total Population
| Percentage of Total Population

Glasgow City
| 1,569
| 21.8
| 580,690
| 11.3

Edinburgh, City of
| 600
| 8.3
| 463,510
| 9.1

North Lanarkshire
| 455
| 6.3
| 323,780
| 6.3

Fife
| 384
| 5.3
| 358,930
| 7.0

Dundee City
| 380
| 5.3
| 142,170
| 2.8

South Lanarkshire
| 371
| 5.1
| 307,670
| 6.0

Aberdeen City
| 272
| 3.8
| 206,880
| 4.0

Renfrewshire
| 253
| 3.5
| 169,590
| 3.3

North Ayrshire
| 233
| 3.2
| 135,490
| 2.6

East Ayrshire
| 177
| 2.5
|