§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish in the Official Report the number of detentions in the various police authorities in England and Wales under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for each year since its inception, indicating how many persons so detained were subsequently charged with offences under the Act, how many were convicted, how many were served with exclusion orders and how many were charged with offences which in Northern Ireland would have been scheduled offences under the Emergency Provisions Act;
(2) whether he will indicate the number of persons arrested or detained in the various police areas in each year since the inception of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, indicating how many were subsequently charged with offences under that Act or of offences which, if they had been resident in Northern Ireland, would have been scheduled offences under the Emergency Provisions Act.
§ Mr. WhitelawWe shall reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been held without bail under the Prevention of Terrorism Act each 107W year since its inception; and how many have been charged with offences under the Act, and which section, indicating in each category with which paramilitary organisation, if any, they were alleged to be associated;
(2) how many persons have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, in each year since its inception, indicating which paramilitary organisation was concerned and whether of republican or loyalist sympathy, and how many have subsequently been charged with offences which if they were charged in Northern Ireland would have been scheduled offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and which sections of this Act;
(3) how many persons he has served with exclusion orders in each year since the inception of the Prevention of Terrorism Act; from which part of the United Kingdom they have been excluded; how many would have been described as republican or loyalist supporters, and how many of them have been convicted of offences which were either scheduled offences under the Emergency Provisions Act or would have been if convicted in Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe information readily available centrally on persons detained under the prevention of terrorism legislation in Great Britain is published quarterly in the series of Home Office statistical bulletins "Statistics on the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1974 and 1976". The additional information requested is not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.