asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give the amount of grant to each district council for recreation purposes for the past three available years; and if he will give each as a percentage of the total and also as a per capita figure to the electorate in each area.
The information requested is as follows:
District Council
| Electoral population
| Grant paid £ | 1977–78 percentage of total grant | per capita figure £ | Grant paid £ | 1978–79 percentage of total grant | per capita figure £ | Grant paid £ | 1979–80 percentage of total grant | Per capita figure £ | |
| Antrim | … | 26,574 | 111,859 | 2·57 | 4·20 | 225,242 | 4·63 | 8·47 | 292,964 | 5·16 | 11·02 |
| Ards | … | 40,413 | 32,708 | 0·75 | 0·80 | 27,201 | 0·56 | 0·67 | 35,349 | 0·62 | 0·87 |
| Armagh | … | 33,147 | 17,194 | 0·39 | 0·51 | 29,296 | 0·60 | 0·88 | 56,149 | 0·98 | 1·69 |
| Ballymena | … | 37,380 | 255,539 | 5·88 | 6·83 | 250,000 | 5·14 | 6·68 | 39,889 | 0·70 | 1·06 |
| Ballymoney | … | 15,761 | 44,468 | 1·02 | 2·82 | 48,858 | 1·00 | 3·09 | 291,463 | 5·13 | 18·49 |
| Banbridge | … | 21,219 | 37,932 | 0·87 | 1·78 | 20,196 | 0·41 | 0·95 | 159,449 | 2·80 | 7·51 |
| Belfast | … | 232,905 | 1,721,395 | 39·62 | 7·39 | 2,209,253 | 45·48 | 9·48 | 2,411,965 | 42·49 | 10·35 |
| Carrickfergus | … | 19,731 | 257,444 | 5·92 | 13·29 | 279,933 | 5·76 | 14·18 | 146,843 | 2·58 | 7·44 |
| Castlereagh | … | 44,972 | 173,714 | 3·99 | 3·86 | 131,692 | 2·71 | 2·92 | 87,917 | 1·54 | 1·95 |
| Coleraine | … | 31,923 | 57,037 | 1·31 | 1·78 | 70,582 | 1·45 | 2·21 | 190,875 | 3·36 | 5·97 |
| Cookstown | … | 19,177 | 730 | 0·01 | 0·03 | 5,699 | 0·11 | 0·29 | 82,924 | 1·46 | 4·32 |
| Craigavon | … | 48,748 | 162,931 | 3·75 | 3·34 | 97,368 | 200 | 1·99 | 157,618 | 2·77 | 3·23 |
| Down | … | 34,038 | 157,207 | 3·61 | 4·61 | 203,888 | 4·19 | 5·99 | 206,015 | 3·62 | 605 |
| Dungannon | … | 29,576 | 133,051 | 306 | 4·49 | 10,086 | 0·20 | 0·34 | 45,838 | 0·80 | 1·54 |
| Fermanagh | … | 36,566 | 46,937 | 1·08 | 1·28 | 94,858 | 1·95 | 2·59 | 258,990 | 4·56 | 7·08 |
| Larne | … | 20,366 | 49,619 | 1·14 | 2·43 | 44,469 | 0·91 | 2·18 | 35,416 | 0·62 | 1·73 |
| Limavady | … | 15,619 | 15,154 | 0·34 | 0·97 | 17,610 | 0·36 | 112 | 84,400 | 1·48 | 5·40 |
| Lisburn | … | 54,643 | 109,226 | 2·51 | 1·99 | 123,021 | 2·53 | 2·25 | 87,367 | 1·53 | 1·59 |
| Londonderry | … | 52,545 | 247,340 | 5·69 | 4·70 | 621,210 | 12·78 | 11·82 | 283,857 | 500 | 5·40 |
| Magherafelt | … | 21,916 | 48,476 | 1·11 | 2·21 | 20,433 | 0·42 | 0·93 | 52,308 | 0·92 | 2·38 |
| Moyle | … | 9,645 | 82,621 | 1·90 | 8·56 | 41,624 | 0·85 | 4·31 | 169,692 | 2·98 | 17·59 |
| Newry and Mourne | … | 50,110 | 102,628 | 2·36 | 2·04 | 74,917 | 1·54 | 1·49 | 66,834 | 117 | 1·33 |
| Newtownabbey | … | 51,528 | 112,366 | 2·58 | 2·18 | 44,922 | 0·92 | 0·87 | 2,593 | 004 | 005 |
| North Down | … | 45,960 | 65,162 | 1·50 | 1·41 | 80,512 | 1·65 | 1·75 | 91,712 | 1·61 | 1·99 |
| Omagh | … | 28,347 | 113,702 | 2·61 | 401 | 59,699 | 1·22 | 210 | 279,272 | 4·92 | 9·85 |
| Strabane | … | 22,753 | 187,264 | 4·31 | 8·23 | 24,597 | 0·50 | 1·08 | 58,908 | 1·03 | 2·58 |
| Total | 1,045,562 | 4,343,704 | — | — | 4,857,166 | — | — | 5,676,607 | — | — | |