§ Mr. Parryasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will place in the Library a copy of the speech made by the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Butler), on 16 March concerning violence and terrorism.
§ Mr. PriorAt a function held on 15 March to promote industrial investment and employment in Northern Ireland, my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth (Mr. Butler) made a comparison between the levels of crimes and violence and the population in Northern Ireland in 1981 and 1982 and those in various regions of England in the same year. There is no text of his comments. They were drawn from figures in the annual reports of the Chief
Northern Arts £ Tyne and Wear £ Cleveland £ Cumbria £ Northumberland £ Durham £ 1979–80 1,088,960 518,933 137,956 185,128 58,097 76,935 1980–81 1,306,630 566,111 151,410 223,998 79,727 113,343 1981–82 1,456,051 612,287 153,364 257,760 102,948 154,490 1982–83 1,733,236 803,578 193,420 287,312 117,875 189,644 1983–84* 1,720,000 734,979 211,501 279,884 134,224 217,433 * Provisional. The figures for each county include small sums granted directly by the Arts Council of Great Britain but exclude sums paid by local authorities directly to individual arts bodies and to Northern Arts itself. Some Northern Arts grants are not attributable to particular locations.