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Mr. Churchill
asked the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the charge to the Defence Vote of maintaining United Kingdom forces in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years up to 1976–77.
Mr. Robert C. Brown
The estimated costs of military operations in Northern Ireland for the years since 1969 are as follows:
| 1969–70—£1½ million |
| 1970–71—£6½ million |
| 1971–72—£14 million |
| 1972–73—£29 million |
| 1973–74—£33 million |
| 1974–75—£45 million |
| 1975–76—£60 million |
| 1976–77—£65 million. |