From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: March 2026 published today: Total income from farming is the official measure of the profit (output minus costs) of the agricultural industry in Scotland. Initial estimates for 2025 predict record high total income from farming around £1.5 billion. Higher output and stable costs compared to 2024 drove a higher profit margin in 2025. Continued high commodity prices, including increases cattle, milk and potato prices drove a rise in the value of agricultural output by 8% to £5.1 billion. Total costs are estimated at around £4.1 billion. While many costs continued to fall from … Continue reading Rise in the value of agricultural output in Scotland by 8% to record high of £5.1 billion is not apprently news

From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: March 2026 published today: There were 63,867 incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police in 2023-24, an increase of 3% on 2022-23. In 2023-24, 38% of all incidents recorded by the police included the recording of at least one crime or offence. Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-march-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/ Note: Multiple factors lie behind the long term increase in recorded domestic abuse-related crime including for example – historical reporting, more online offending and the impact of new legislation. The latest available data from the SCJS, for 2018-20 (2018-19 & 2019-20 combined) estimated that 3.6% of … Continue reading Level of domestic abuse incidents in Scotland unchanged since 2008 but now 114 0000, 16% more common in England & Wales

From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: March 2026 published today: The clear up rate for all recorded crimes was 56.0% in 2024-25, up from 54.1% in 2023-24. Crimes against society (93.8%), non-sexual crimes of violence (68.4%) and sexual crimes (56.9%) continued to have higher clear up rates in 2024-25 than crimes of dishonesty (35.1%) and damage and reckless behaviour (31.0%). Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-march-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/ In England & Wales? According to the Home Office’s Crime outcomes in England and Wales 2024 to 2025 bulletin the Charge/summons rate was only 6.3% for victim-based offences and 12.45 for non-victim-based offenses, overall, 7% … Continue reading Increase in crime clear up rate to 56% in Scotland far higher than in England & Wales

By stewartb What the Scottish Ambulance Service is achieving and what its Welsh peer is achieving with the ‘benefit’ of a Labour government in Cardiff. Scottish Ambulance Service (April 29) – Unscheduled Care Operational Statistics – Unscheduled Care Incidents between 30 March 2026 to 26 April 2026 In the past week, the median and 90th percentile response times (- the point at which 90% of responses were quicker and 10% were slower) were: ‘Purple incidents – Median: 6 minutes 22 seconds; 90th Percentile: 15 minutes 59 seconds‘ ‘Red incidents – Median: 8 minutes 58 seconds; 90th Percentile: 19 minutes 43 seconds. Welsh Government … Continue reading Ambulance performance – given how Labour fail in Wales why should we trust them in Scotland?