HC Deb 10 July 1984 vol 63 cc520-1W
Mr. William Ross

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each compound in prisons in Northern Ireland the number of special category prisoners presently detained whom he expects to finish their sentences in (a) 1984, (b) 1985, (c) 1986 and (d) 1987; and if he will indicate for each year, and for the present total, to which terrorists or paramilitary organisation those prisoners are or were members;

(2) what is his estimate of the number of persons born in Northern Ireland who are convicted prisoners in prisons in the Irish Republic; and, of these, how many he estimates to have been sentenced for terrorist-type offences;

(3) how many persons, in Northern Ireland prisons as convicted prisoners, are citizens of the Irish Republic; and, of these, how many were convicted of terrorist offences at the latest available date;

(4) if he will publish a table in the Official Report indicating to the latest available date for each year or financial year the number of bomb explosions attributed to terrorism in Northern Ireland since 1 January 1968, the amount of illegal explosives recovered by the security forces and the amount defused, and the number and type of weapons captured and the amount of ammunition captured;

(5) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the sums paid in each year or financial year in (a) compensation for property damaged and (b) compensation for personal injury suffered by the security forces and the public as a result of the civil unrest in Northern Ireland from 1 January 1968 to the latest available date; and what have been the total amounts claimed for such injuries in each such year.

Mr. Scott

I shll reply to the hon. Gentleman as soon as possible.