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Northern Ireland

Volume 974: debated on Friday 30 November 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of the Army and the Ulster Defence Regiment serve in each of the six counties in Northern Ireland; and how many serve in Belfast.

Military areas of responsibility in Northern Ireland do not follow county boundaries, and details figures are not available in the form requested. The broad distribution of Regular Army major units and UDR battalions according to their main areas of operation is as follows:movement studies. The programme involved no public danger and the amount to which any individual could possibly have been subjected was a tiny proportion of that contained in everyday foods. No programmes of this kind are currently in hand.