§ Mr. Wm. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report a table for each year since 1969 showing the number of murders of Ulster civilians, Army, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve, Ulster Defence Regiment, the number of shooting incidents, the number of bombing incidents, the number of cases of arson, the estimated value of property destroyed and the number of persons in each category listed above injured and the sums paid in compensation for personal injuries and in compensation for deaths and the compensation paid in respect of property, and the number of murders and other unlawful 224W killing, for example, manslaughter, not connected with the security situation and also list the number of and types of firearms recovered by the security forces and the amounts of commercial explosives and explosive mixtures seized by the security forces or recovered from unexploded bombs.
§ Mr. Humphrey Atkins, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 25 June 1979], gave the following answer:
I refer the hon. Member to the Official Report of 15 June, Vol. 968, c. 282, for details of security incidents and security forces' activity since 1971. Further information is as follows:
(i) Unlawful killings (including murders) not connected with the scurity situation:
1969 4* 1970 5* 1971 23 1972 27 1973 13 1974 17 1975 23 1976 34 1977 27 1978 14 * murders only (ii) Compensation for criminal damage and injury:
Property Personal £ £ 1968–69 12,036 2,356 1969–70 1,976,760 131,876 1970–71 2,780,604 443,474 1971–72 3,966,680 724,470 1972–73 26,592,312 2,173,524 1973–74 27,901,114 3,927,946 1974–75 40,209,285 6,022,556 1975–76 45,844,522 7,937,751 1976–77 49,975,314 6,307,724 1977–78 37,217,730 7,529,349 1978–79 39,150,499 10,621,229