§ Lord Bleaseasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the Policy, Planning and Research Unit (PPRU), which is undertaking a community attitudes survey and which issued a first results report (occasional paper no. 26) on 19 May 1994, will now publish the results of its latest findings. [HL1539]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office (Lord Dubs)Responsibility for the subject in question has been delegated to the Statistics and Research Agency under its Chief Executive, Mr. Edgar Jardine. His reply is given below.
Letter to Lord Blease from the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Mr. Edgar Jardine, dated 22 March 1999.
I have been asked in my capacity as Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency to reply to your question about the publication of the results of the Community Attitudes Survey. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) subsumed the functions of the former Policy, Planning and Research Unit on 1 April 1996.
The Community Attitudes Survey measures, on a continuous basis, the attitudes of a representative sample of adults aged 16 and over in Northern Ireland towards crime, policing and the courts. The survey is currently in its seventh year. The results of the previous five years of the survey were published as PPRU Occasional Papers Nos. 20 and 26 and NISRA Occasional Papers No. 1, No. 7 and No. 9. The results for the most recent year (November 1997 to October 1998) are currently being analysed and will be published within the next month.