How many attacks there have been on (a) ambulance, (b) fire and rescue and (c) accident and emergency personnel in each year since 1999, an…

Data on attacks against ambulance, fire and rescue and accident and emergency personnel is not held in the format requested. Since 2009-10, and following the introduction of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005, all of Scotland’s legacy police forces (now Police Scotland) have used a separate code for recording common assault in cases where the victim was an emergency worker. The number of cases for this code are shown in the following table.
It should be noted that the table will not include police recorded attacks on emergency workers which did not result in a common assault (for example a serious assault) as a recorded crime code will be used which doesn’t identify the occupation of the victim.
Common assault of an emergency worker, Scotland, 2005-06 to 2014-15

2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
Common assault of an emergency worker
5,320
6,456
7,107
6,514
6,813
6,480
In terms of prosecutions and convictions, the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 has provisions for a person who assaults, resists, obstructs, molests or hinders emergency workers when they are responding to emergency circumstances.
Assaults that happen outside of emergency circumstances, as specified in the Act, will not result in prosecutions under the Act, and these and those assaults on emergency workers which may result in other charges, such as serious assault or attempted murder, cannot be identified separately in the available statistics and so are not included. These numbers also relate only to those attacks which proceeded to court.
It is not possible to provide the detail requested regarding the breakdown of the type of emergency workers involved (under Section 1(3) of the Act), as this information is not held by the Scottish Government.
The question specifically relates to sections 1(1), 2(1), and 5(1) of the Act:
Section 1(1): Assaulting or impeding certain providers of emergency services.
Section 2(1): Assaulting or impeding certain emergency workers responding to emergency circumstances.
Section 5(1): Assaulting or impeding health workers in hospital premises.
The number of people prosecuted and convicted1 in Scottish Courts for offences under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Sections 1(1), 2(1) and 5(1) is given in the table below.
Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 1(1), 2(1), 5(1)
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
Total
Prosecuted
57
209
285
305
288
331
371
352
306
Total
Convicted
54
197
273
297
279
319
355
332
288
1. Where main charge.
Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Database.
Prior to the 2005 Act, offences against emergency workers, apart from the police, were not recorded separately, and so we are only able to provide data going back to 2005-06.