§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table to show how many persons, in total and of these how 790W Service by scale and point, of standard payroll system code, under the terms and conditions of the ancillary staffs' Whitley council agreement.
§ Mr. Mellor[holding answer 22 May 1989]: The latest available information to this level of detail relates to staff in post at 30 September 1987. At this date the estimated numbers of whole-time equivalent ancillary staff employed by the NHS in England by pay scale and incremental point were as shown in the table.
many were councillors, and of what political parties, have been paid compensation after allegations of assault by (a) members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, (b) the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve, (c) the Ulster Defence Regiment, and (d) the Army in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; what were the sums paid, the total costs including legal and other fees, in each case and the total costs to public funds including police costs for investigations and legal and other costs or as much of such information as is available to him.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe information is not available in the form requested, but I have listed below details of total damages paid over the last live years to persons alleging assault by members of the Army and the UDR.
Financial year Number of persons Total damages paid £ 1984–1985 12 11,775 1985–1986 61 118,527 1986–1987 26 71,561 1987–1988 32 64,351 1988–1989 29 51,469 Notes:
1. In six of the cases (three in 1985–86; two in 1986–87 and one in 1987–88) the claims involved allegations of assault, wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
2. In three cases (one in 1986–87 and two in 1987–88) the claims were made jointly against the MOD and the Chief Constable.
3. The figures do not include legal fees or police costs.
4. Information in respect of the RUC and RUC(R) cannot be made available except at disporportionate cost.