Mr. John David Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the number of live births in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information is as follows:
Year Numbers 1974 27,160 1975 26,130 1976 26,361 1977 25,437 1978 26,239 1979 28,178 1980 28,582 1981 27,302 1982 27,028 1983 27,254 The 1983 figure is provisional, pending final classification.
Year 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Number of reminders issued 4,873 6,700 6,158 6,575 6,855 Number of companies referred to Director of Public Prosecutions 198 212 444 543 *33 Number of companies struck off register 451 87 256 189 266 * In 1983 only those companies known to be trading and which failed to submit returns were referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions. At the 31 December 1983 some 600 companies which were not known to be trading were in the process of being struck off.