HC Deb 12 December 1975 vol 902 cc407-8W
Mr. Churchill

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many soldiers and policemen have been killed or have suffered severe injury in each year since 1970 in the course of arresting individuals in Northern Ireland who were subsequently detained and released from detention.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

The answer to this Question cannot be supplied without the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of time, effort and public money. The circumstances of some 2,000 arrests would have to be examined individually; and this would not cover people arrested between January 1970 and August 1971 and who were subsequently and/or detained between August 1971 and December 1975.