– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 12 November 2008.
Gavin Brown
Conservative
Question S3W-17512
To ask the Scottish Executive how many off-licenses in the Lothians have been found to sell alcohol to people under 18 in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Kenny MacAskill
Scottish National Party
The available information is provided in the following table:
Number of offences recorded by the police in the Lothians in which a licensed person has sold alcohol to a person under 18, over the last five financial years:
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| City of Edinburgh | 11 | 9 | 17 | 33 | 19 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 3 | 41 | 20 |
| Midlothian | 6 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 17 |
| West Lothian | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 43 |
| Lothians | 18 | 21 | 33 | 93 | 99 |
