§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been(a) killed and (b) injured on the mainland as a result of Irish Republican Army and Irish National Libertion Army terrorist attacks since 1969.
§ Mr. John Patten[holding answer 1 July 1988]Information is not available in the form requested. The number of homicides in England and Wales attributed to acts of terrorism connected with Northern Ireland since 1974 is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales", copies of which are in the Library (Table 4.5 of Cm. 233 gives figures for 1976–86). There were 90 such deaths in 26 incidents during the period 1972 to 1987. Information on the number of terrorist incidents causing injury is only complete since 1980. During the period 1980 to 1987 there were 10 such incidents in which some 220 people were recorded as having been injured.