Table 9 Persons sentenced to immediate custody⁽¹⁾ for drug offences by length of sentence⁽²⁾ and year, Scotland

										Number and percentage of persons

Length of sentence	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000⁽³⁾	2001⁽³⁾	2002⁽³⁾	2003


					Number

Up to and including 1 month	64	78	45	81	115	110	77	81	72	33
Over 1 month up to 3 months	79	137	123	190	216	230	146	176	132	56
Over 3 months up to 6 months	68	89	70	141	153	137	112	125	81	71
Over 6 months up to 1 year	79	83	53	79	90	96	90	92	70	44
Over 1 year up to 2 years	65	62	44	57	73	91	81	83	64	36
Over 2 years up to 5 years	75	79	75	125	125	193	166	132	97	84
Over 5 years up to 7 years	4	13	15	32	19	30	22	21	11	8
Over 7 years	4	10	10	19	8	14	9	11	6	13
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Total	434	551	435	724	799	901	703	721	533	345

					Percentage

Up to and including 1 month	15	14	10	11	14	12	11	11	14	10
Over 1 month up to 3 months	18	25	28	26	27	26	21	24	25	16
Over 3 months up to 6 months	16	16	16	19	19	15	16	17	15	21
Over 6 months up to 1 year	18	15	12	11	11	11	13	13	13	13
Over 1 year up to 2 years	15	11	10	8	9	10	12	12	12	10
Over 2 years up to 5 years	17	14	17	17	16	21	24	18	18	24
Over 5 years up to 7 years	1	2	3	4	2	3	3	3	2	2
Over 7 years	1	2	2	3	1	2	1	2	1	4
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Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100



(1) Unsuspended imprisonment, youth custody, detention centre sentences, training school orders and young offender institute sentences.
(2) In the case of offenders with two or more sentences of immediate custody the offender is shown against the longest one except for Customs cases for 1989 to 1995 when
consecutive sentences were aggregated (with only a small effect on the overall figures).
(3) Customs figures are not available for 2000, 2002 and 2003; import/export figures are therefore based on police and court data.