§ 18. Mr. Cashasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the progress being made on the conversion of Kilroot power station as announced in the House by his predecessor on 22 May 1985.
§ Dr. BoysonWork on the conversion of the station has now begun and one of the two generating sets was taken out of service in January. The main contract, valued at some £40 million, for the conversion of the station's
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Statistics on Security Part I—Statistics of Terrorist activity Yearly figures: 1971–1985 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Shooting Incidents‡ 1,756 10,628 5,018 3,206 1,803 1,908 1,081 755 728 642 815(327) 382(165) 290(134) 230(104) 196(41) Explosions 1,022 1,382 978 685 399 766 366 455 422 280 398 219 266 193 148 Bombs neutralised 493 471 542 428 236 426 169 178 142 120 131 113 101 55 67 Weight of explosives in lbs* Explosions 10,972 47,462 47,472 46,435 13,753 17,596 2,839 5,343 11,181 9,059 9,261 11,199 6,923 8,545 11,711 Neutralised 3,001 19,978 32,450 27,094 11,159 16,252 2,188 5,860.5 4,530 6,405 9,168 7,300 7,503 6,114 7,715 Armed robberies 437 1,931 1,215 1,231 1,201 813 591 442 434 412 587 580 622 627 459 Amount stolen 303,787 790,687 612,015 572,951 572,105 545,497 446,988 232,650 568,359 496,825 854,929 1,392,202 830,258 701,903 655,690 Malicious fires†[...] — — 587 636 248 453 432 269 315 275 536 499 528 840 740 boilers, has been agreed with Northern Engineering Industries; and most of the remaining contracts will be let during the course of 1986. The conversion project, which is estimated to cost £112 million at outturn prices, is scheduled to be completed by mid 1989.