§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have been found guilty of any indictable offence after having been detained initially under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts, giving separately the numbers of persons found guilty of offences under the Act and those found guilty under other Acts in each year since November 1974.
§ Mr. BrittanComprehensive information is available for individual years only from the beginning of 1979 and may be derived from tables 4 and 5 of the quarterly statistical bulletin on statistics on the operation of the prevention of terrorism legislation. All offences listed in table 4 are indictable apart from those listed under section 2(b) and schedule 3, and all offences listed in table 5 are indictable apart from "other offences".
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were charged with offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts without 650W first having been detained under section 12 of the Act or article 10 of the supplemental provisions in Great Britain in each year since November 1974.
§ Mr. BrittanThe information available to me, which may be incomplete, is published quarterly in a footnote to table 1 of the statistical bulletin on statistics on the operation of the prevention of terrorism legislation. I am aware of eight persons so charged in 1977 and one in 1980.