HC Deb 13 January 1997 vol 288 cc54-5W
Mr. William Ross

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many so-called punishment shootings have taken place in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years and the current year to date; and how many were believed in each year to have been carried out by (1) the Provisional IRA,

(2) other Republican terrorists,

(3) the Ulster Defence Association,

(4) the Ulster Volunteer Force and

(5) other Loyalist organisations. [9220]

Sir John Wheeler

The number of casualties as a result of "punishment" shootings for the period 1 January 1991 to 11 December 1996 is as follows:

Year By Loyalist groups By Republican groups Total
1991 40 36 76
1992 72 61 133
1993 60 25 85
1994 68 54 122
1995 3 0 3
19961 19 3 22
1 To 11 December.

It is not possible to specify which individual group carried out an offence.