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Criminal legislation created by Scottish Parliament and Prosecutions: FOI release
Information requested
1. A list of the new criminal offences/crimes created by legislation of the Scottish Parliament since its creation in 1999:
2. Details of how many prosecutions have been taken by the Crown in the Scottish criminal courts in respect of each of the offences in that list:
3. Details of how many of these prosecutions have resulted in convictions:
4. Details of the names of the Scottish Govt special advisers ("Spads") who have seen this request prior to your reply being sent to me.
Response
The information on legislation created by the Scottish Parliament since 1999 that you have requested is available from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/browse/scotland (under 'Acts of Scottish Parliament' link). Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested.
The answer to questions two and three (prosecutions and convictions under legislation created by the Scottish Parliament since 1999) is provided in the undernoted table. Please note: this is not a comprehensive list. Please see below for more details.
Number of people proceeded/convicted under legislation created by the Scottish Parliament¹, 1999-2000 to 2016-17.
Financial Year Proceedings Convictions 1999-00 - - 2000-01 18 18 2001-02 38 36 2002-03 143 140 2003-04 70 66 2004-05 109 92 2005-06 407 327 2006-07 623 546 2007-08 914 820 2008-09 1,097 987 2009-10 1,028 936 2010-11 2,548 2,285 2011-12 9,758 8,443 2012-13 13,450 11,603 2013-14 18,112 15,227 2014-15 22,000 18,539 2015-16 23,166 19,558
¹where main crime. Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Database.
The table which includes more detailed information (type of charge) is attached below. In response to the fourth part of your request this information is not held at the time of the request. This is a formal notice under section 17 (1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested. For your information FOI cases are allocated to Special Advisers by their Private Office team on the basis of policy and workloads.
In response to the fourth part of your request this information is not held at the time of the request. This is a formal notice under section 17 (1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested. For your information FOI cases are allocated to Special Advisers by their Private Office team on the basis of policy and workloads.
Detected exemption language
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. This is a formal notice under section 17 (1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested. This is a formal notice under section 17 (1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you requested. Criminal Justice and Licensing (S) Act 2010 S42 created a new offence of 'possession of extreme pornography' by inserting a new section 51A into the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982). Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.