How many domestic noise complaints were made in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The information requested is collated and published on Audit Scotland''s website www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/performance/service/index.php?year.
Prior to 2005, Audit Scotland did not distinguish type of noise complaint. Performance Indicators were then amended to reflect the implementation of new noise legislation. Domestic noise was duly defined by Audit Scotland as meaning noise to which part V of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act, 2004 applies or would have applied, had the council resolved to apply that provision. However, such noise may be dealt with using other, pre-existing legislation.
The following two tables provide a summary of data held by Audit Scotland, and also the Scottish Government when local authorities submitted direct statistical returns from 2005 to 2008 to comply with direct grant administration requirements prior to the single outcome agreement local authority autonomy from April 2008.
Table 1- Summary of Audit Scotland''s Statistics for Noise Complaints from 2004-08
Year Ending
| 2004
| 2005
| 2006
| 2007
| 2008

Number of noise complaints prior to 2006, which do not distinguish source
| 10,323
| 11,537
| 28,217
|
|

Number of domestic noise complaints dealt with under ASBA Part V provisions
|
|
|
| 19,485
| 23,107

Number of domestic noise complaints from 2006
|
|
|
| 45,070
| 46,976


Table 2- Summary of Scottish Government''s Air Noise and Nuisance Team''s statistics of Anti-Social Behavioural Noise complaint totals from the 25 participating Scottish local authorities:
Local Authority
| 2005-06
| 2006-07
| 2007-08

Aberdeen
| 1,667
| 2,253
| 2,058

Angus
| 45
| 469
| 690

Argyll and Bute
|