§ Mr. McCuskerasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a list of the voluntary primary and controlled primary schools situated in Armagh City, Londonderry City, Bangor and Larne, respectively, showing the total pupils enrolled per school in each year between 1970 and 1975, the number of pupils entered for the 11-plus examination and the percentage of passes achieved in each school each year.
§ Mr. MoyleThe selection procedure results for individual schools are not made public. However, the information in respect of the number of entrants and percentages of qualifiers in each education authority area is as follows:
rockets recovered by the security forces since 5th October 1968 to 31st December 1975, with subtotals in each category at the beginning of internment, the suspension of the Stormont Parliament, the first general election of 1974, the beginning of the IRA ceasefire, and 31st December 1975, and the totals for the entire period.
§ Mr. Merlyn Rees,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 12th January 1976], gave the following information:
Table I shows the number of persons killed and the number of explosions from 103W 5th October 1968 to 31st December 1975, with cumulative subtotals as at the beginning of internment (9th August 1971), the suspension of Stormont Parliament (24th March 1972), the general election of 28th February 1974, and the beginning of the PIRA ceasefire on 10th February 1975.
Figures are not readily available in this form for the other items.
TABLE I Persons Killed Cumulative figures from 5th October 1968 to RUC RUC 'R' Army UDR Civilians Total Explosions 9th August 1971 … 5 — 11 — 51 67 459 24th March 1972 … 21 1 55 11 202 290 1,566 28th February 1974 … 38 8 207 41 667 961 3,838 10th February 1975 … 51 9 234 46 818 1,158 4,410 31st December 1975 … 57 13 246 53 1,021 1,390 4,717
TABLE II Recovered in Finds Cumulative figures from 1st January 1970 to Shooting incidents involving Security Forces Explosives (lb) Ammunition (rounds) Shotguns Rifles Handguns† 31st July 1971 … … 238 2,653 79,850 91 199 260 31st March 1972 … … 2,678 6,262 249,647 221 471 570 28th February 1974 … … 12,900 90,344 606,432 529 1,588 1,591 31st January 1975 … … 14,533 110,417 720,326 634 1,967 2,075 31st December 1975 … … 15,049 121,136 792,654 765 2,185 2,481
Recovered in Finds Cumulative figures from 1st January 1970 to Machine-guns* Mortars Rocket Launchers Mortar Shells Rockets 31st July 1971 … … … … 15 — — 2 — 31st March 1972 … … … … 55 — 1 2 12 28th February 1974 … … … … 154 278 11 119 34 31st January 1975 … … … … 195 297 15 292 42 31st December 1975 … … … … 234 302 15 297 42 * A breakdown of this figure into sub-machine-guns, heavy and medium machine-guns is not available. † Pistols and revolvers.
TABLE III PERSONS INJURED AND WOUNDED IN NORTHERN IRELAND Army and UDR RUC and RUC 'R' Civilians Total 1969 … … … … Not available 711 Not available Not available 1970 … … … … 620 191 245 (from June) Not available 1971 … … … … 390 317 1,800 2,507 1972 … … … … 578 466 3,813 4,857 1973 … … … … 548 291 1,812 2,651 1974 … … … … 483 235 1,680 2,398 1975 … … … … 167 167* 1,919* 2,253* * Provisional figures only. Final figures will be published in the Secretary of State's quarterly statistics on security for October-December 1975.