§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report to show by organisation and date the number of persons who have been members of a proscribed organisation and have been extradited from the Irish Republic in each year since 1968, or as much of such information as is available to him.
§ Mr. CopeStatistical material about extradition from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland has been collected by the RUC since 1971. The information is not available precisely in the form requested: records differentiate only between terrorist and non-terrorist cases. The information available is summarised in the table:
Persons extradited Year of return Terrorist offences Non-terrorist offences 1971 — 7 1972 — — 1973 — 3 1974 — 9 1975 — 1 1976 — 7 1977 1 8 1978 — 15 1979 — 8 1980 — 12 1981 — 5 1982 — 18 1983 — 10 1984 2 1 1985 — 5 1986 — — 1987 1 — 1988 2 1 1989 1 —