asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of deaths which have occurred in Great Britain from 1 January 1969 to the latest available date in each year connected with present civil unrest in Northern Ireland; and how many of those deaths were caused by action taken by the police and each of the known terrorist or paramilitary groups.
The available information for England and Wales is shown in the following table. The table covers offences of homicide which have been attributed on the evidence available to acts of terrorism connected with Northern Ireland, but the coverage may not be complete. For information for Scotland, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland on 28 January 1985 at column 17.
| Victims of offences currently recorded as homicide attributed to acts of terrorism connected with Northern Ireland by year of recording. | |
| England and Wales | Number of persons |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1974 | 43 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 2 |
| 1977 | — |
| 1978 | — |
| 1979 | 1 |
| 1980 | — |
| 1981 | 3 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | *5 |
| *Provisional | |