Question reference: S5W-27915
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 12 March 2020
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 March 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the total value of fines issued to people convicted of fly tipping has been in each of the last five years.
Answer
The available information is provided in the following table, which has been produced from the Scottish Government’s criminal proceedings database .
Please note: Information for 2018-19 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2018-19 Statistical Bulletin. The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/ForthcomingPubs
Total value of fines issued by the Scottish Courts for fly-tipping offences¹, 2013-14 to 2017-18.
2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | |
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990 SECTION 33 | 2,670 | 17,750 | 2,775 | 34,100 | 100 |
1 - where main crime
Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database