§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many assaults described as punishment shootings have taken place in Northern Ireland in each year since 1991 and in 1997 to date; and how many were believed in each year to have been carried out by the(a) Provisional IRA, (b) other terrorist groups, (c) the Ulster Defence Association, (d) the Ulster Volunteer Force and (e) other loyalist paramilitary organisations. [18686]
§ Sir John Wheeler[holding answer 4 March 1997]: Casualties as a result of terrorist assaults (shootings) are 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 1996 21 3 24 1997 (to 2 March) 11 1 12 It is not possible to specify which individual group carried out an offence.