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Question reference: S5W-26508

  • Asked by: Peter Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 22 November 2019 Registered interest

  • Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 3 December 2019

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19928 by Fergus Ewing on 14 November 2018, whether it will provide the information for 2018-19 on the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953.

Answer

Information on cases of sheep worrying is not held centrally in the format requested. Information is available on the number of offences recorded by Police Scotland under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 – which relates to dogs worrying livestock on agricultural land (following table). However as this legislation applies to all forms of livestock, these figures are not available for specific types of animal.

 

Table 1. Offences of Protection of livestock
from dogs, by local authority, 2009-10 to 2018-19

  

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

Aberdeen City

2

3

3

-

1

2

6

6

3

1

Aberdeenshire

14

14

12

24

9

10

15

16

21

20

Angus

6

2

1

3

1

2

6

1

2

2

Argyll & Bute

6

3

3

11

3

5

8

11

7

11

Clackmannanshire

-

-

2

1

2

-

4

2

2

-

Dumfries & Galloway

3

7

7

5

6

6

12

7

21

13

Dundee

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

East Ayrshire

4

4

2

1

2

1

8

3

9

5

East Dunbartonshire

1

2

1

1

3

-

4

-

3

1

East Lothian

2

1

2

-

3

2

-

-

1

-

East
Renfrewshire

1

4

1

-

-

-

1

1

1

-

Edinburgh City

-

2

2

2

3

3

2

7

4

5

Falkirk

4

2

5

8

-

3

4

3

2

4

Fife

4

9

12

9

6

7

4

8

6

7

Glasgow City

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

Highland

21

23

18

15

10

15

23

23

20

19

Inverclyde

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

2

1

2

Midlothian

1

3

3

6

5

5

4

10

8

7

Moray

2

5

3

2

3

5

4

5

3

4

Na h-Eileanan Siar

7

12

14

7

3

8

5

8

6

7

North Ayrshire

1

1

3

1

2

3

4

-

2

3

North Lanarkshire

-

2

4

-

1

4

6

11

3

9

Orkney Islands

2

2

5

4

1

2

7

2

3

1

Perth & Kinross

3

2

3

2

2

3

7

14

11

6

Renfrewshire

1

2

6

2

1

-

4

4

2

2

Scottish Borders

2

3

2

4

8

10

7

7

4

8

Shetland Islands

-

4

2

2

-

-

3

-

-

1

South Ayrshire

2

2

1

-

3

-

1

1

3

2

South Lanarkshire

1

3

-

2

2

2

8

12

13

10

Stirling

2

2

10

8

8

8

7

8

4

12

West Dunbartonshire

-

2

1

1

3

1

2

1

1

1

West Lothian

3

1

5

3

7

2

7

2

4

4

Scotland

95

122

133

125

98

109

174

175

170

168

Source: Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2018-19

 

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