The statutory instrument does not confer a function on Scottish ministers to make referrals to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The question of whether Pringle of Scotland is in breach of the terms of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) is for the Trading Standards Services and the Office of Fair Trading as the enforcement authorities and, ultimately, the Crown Office for the purpose of establishing whether criminal proceedings should be brought.

It will be up to the local authority''s trading standards service to make a decision about investigations into possible breaches of the CPRs.

Information on the number of road traffic accidents that have involved uninsured drivers is not held centrally. However information on the number of injury road accidents is available via the following National Statistics publication, Road Accidents Scotland 2006, a copy which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 44153).

The recorded crime data held centrally has the number of crimes recorded by the police and the number recorded as detected, that is, there is sufficient evidence to justify consideration of criminal proceedings. We cannot provide any information on the number of people involved in crimes, since it is possible that individuals may be responsible for more than one of the crimes recorded. The available information is shown in the following table.

Number of Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles for Failure to Insure against Third Party Risks and Insure against Third Party Risks, Other Offences, Detected by Police Forces in Scotland, 2002-03 to 2006-07.

Police Force Area	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Central	1,814	1,399	1,153	1,254	1,202
Dumfries and Galloway	956	795	856	924	1,008
Fife	2,501	2,558	2,290	1,875	1,856
Grampian	3,019	2,480	2,013	2,122	2,172
Lothian and Borders	4,525	4,843	3,980	4,164	4,459
Northern	1,212	1,247	1,049	989	1,160
Strathclyde	13,014	12,953	10,654	10,689	10,440
Tayside	2,997	3,436	2,607	2,487	2,297
Scotland	30,038	29,711	24,602	24,504	24,594

 

The Scottish Government has allocated funding to the following cross-border authorities since 2002:

	2002-03 (£000)	2003-04 (£000)	2004-05 (£000)	2005-06 (£000)	2006-07 (£000)	2007-08 (£000)	2008-09 (£000)
British Library Board	6	10	15	30	32	18	-
British Waterways Scotland	11,901	14,740	14,000	13,211	15,704	12,653	2,790
Community Development Foundation	59	41	311	330	353	409	26
Joint Nature Conservation Committee	1,622	1,651	1,731	1,817	1,805	1,738	-
Scottish Consumer Council	1,087	569	753	979	1,732	1,874	827
Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux	82	205	270	356	254	766	-

 

In addition to the funding detailed above, payments are, and have been, made to a number of the cross-border authorities listed in the Statutory Instrument for services provided.

The detailed inventory of radioactive wastes is published by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which can be found online at:

http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/The-2007-UK-Radioactive-Waste-Inventory-Main-Report-Final.pdf

Information on the oil industry is not held centrally.

For patients admitted into secondary care, Information and Statistics Division (ISD) of National Services Scotland record the cause of injury. It is therefore possible to indicate the number of hospital admissions by NHS board as a result of “operations of war” since 2002. The data does not consider the location of the injury or occupation of the individual. It is therefore not necessarily a member of the armed forces who is recorded. In Scotland, there were zero hospital admissions as a result of “operations of war” in 2001-02 and 2002-03; and less than five in each year from 2003-04 to 2006-07. Due to the small numbers involved and for reasons of confidentiality and disclosure control, board level statistics are not presented.

It is not possible to identify those who received any other form of NHS treatment, such as physiotherapy in the primary care sector, as a result of operations of war, as this data is currently not collected.

The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/1319) sets out the cross-border public authorities as specified under section 88 of the Scotland Act 1998. A copy of this order can be found in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 23320).

Only one such order has ever been made. The statutory framework for the operation of new bodies with devolved and non-devolved functions created since devolution is set out in the relevant establishing statutes.

A list of contacts made between cross-border public authorities and the Scottish Government is not held centrally.

All of the bodies mentioned operate in both reserved and devolved areas. Cross-border public authorities are designated as such by virtue of their remit falling partly within the legislative competence of the Parliament. Such bodies can include those dealing with matters which are wholly devolved in Scotland, but which operate both in Scotland and England. They can also include Scotland-only bodies which operate in both reserved and devolved areas.

The information requested is already in the public domain and can be found on the websites of the relevant bodies.

Cross-border public authorities, in common with all other public authorities, are subject to the regulation, audit and inspection which is appropriate to their functions.