HL Deb 13 January 2003 vol 643 cc2-3WA
Lord Kilclooney

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many persons in each district council area applied to be independent members of the proposed district policing partnerships; and what percentage of the applicants in each council area were Roman Catholics. [HL5481]

Lord Williams of Mostyn

The detail of how many persons in each district council area applied to be independent members of the proposed district policing partnerships and the percentage of the applicants in each council area that are Roman Catholics are provided in the table below.

Breakdown by council area at 18.10.02
Council area RC Protestant Neither Undisclosed Total %RC
Antrim 11 25 3 0 39 28
Ards 8 59 7 3 77 10
Armagh 8 35 0 1 44 18
Ballymena 11 68 5 0 84 13
Ballymoney 5 25 1 0 31 16
Banbridge 15 33 3 1 52 29
Belfast 52 123 22 3 200 26
Carrickfergus 4 33 2 2 41 10
Castlereagh 8 43 4 3 58 14
Coleraine 15 52 8 1 76 20
Cookstown 8 23 0 0 31 26
Craigavon 9 43 1 0 53 17
Derry 24 37 3 1 65 37
Down 23 30 4 0 57 40
Dungannon 6 25 2 1 34 18
Fermanagh 17 41 5 1 64 27
Larne 6 26 1 0 33 18
Limavady 10 26 2 0 38 26
Lisburn 13 61 9 5 88 15
Magherafelt 9 21 0 0 30 30
Moyle 8 11 1 0 20 40
Newry 26 16 0 0 42 62
Newtownabbey 6 51 3 2 62 10
North Down 11 65 10 1 87 13
Omagh 14 27 4 0 45 31
Strabane 8 20 0 1 29 28
Total 335 1019 100 26 1480 23
(N.B. details provided by the Northern Ireland Policing Board)