asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many joyriders have been (a) killed and (b) injured in (i) accidents and (ii) confrontations with the security forces in Northern Ireland in each of the last four years.

Statistics are not maintained in a way which would enable figures to be given in the forms requested, but in incidents where the security forces opened fire on vehicles taken without their owners' consent (a broader category than 'joyriding' incidents), the civilian casualties were as follows: