§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the sums paid in each year or financial year in (a) compensation for property damaged and (b) compensation for personal injury suffered by the security forces and the public as a result of the civil unrest in Northern Ireland from 1 January 1968 to the latest available date; and what have been the total amounts claimed for such injuries in each such year.
§ Mr. Scott[pursuant to his reply, 10 July 1984]: The information requested is not fully available since incident claims are not classified in the manner requested. The following table shows the amount of compensation paid since 1968 and the figures for compensation paid to civilians and members of the security forces under the Criminal Injuries (Compensation) Order 1977 since 9 August of that year, (records are not kept of the division of applications under other legislation).
Report indicating to the latest available date for each year or financial year the number of bomb explosions attributed to terrorism in Northern Ireland since 1 January 1968, the amount of illegal explosives recovered by the security 595W forces and the amount defused, and the number and type of weapons captured and the amount of ammunition captured.
1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Explosions 5 153 1,022 1,382 978 685 399 766 366 455 422 280 398 219 266 Explosives recovered (lbs) — 796 2,748 41,488 38,418 26,210 11,565 21,714 3,809 2,108 1,996 1,810 7,536 5,066 3,762 Explosives neutralised (lbs) — 59 3,001 19,978 32,450 27,094 11,159 16,252 2,188 5,861 4,530 6,405 9,168 7,300 7,503 Weapons recovered Machine Guns 3 11 28 53 49 54 43 41 32 33 31 25 38 25 15 Rifles 5 104 279 533 577 465 226 275 259 188 104 62 136 118 47 Shot Guns 4 47 136 151 167 129 135 80 63 46 38 27 44 34 17 Pistols/Revolvers 2 162 273 522 520 588 416 340 209 126 127 89 139 111 86 Others — — 1 5 282 24 5 101 27 7 1 — 52 29 35 Total 14 324 717 1,264 1,595 1,260 825 637 590 400 301 203 409 317 200 Ammunition recovered (rounds) — 43,095 157,944 183,410 187,399 147,202 73,604 70,306 52,091 43,512 46,280 28,078 47,127 41,452 32,451