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Mr. Mallon
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many protected routes are maintained by the Department of Environment roads service in each district council area in Northern Ireland.
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| Division | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Armagh | 14 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| Dungannon | 18 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enniskillen | 65 | 21 | 57 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Newry | 21 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Newtownards | 29 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Region | 147 | 55 | 69 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5 |
| Ballymena | 37 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Coleraine | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| Larne | 38 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Londonderry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Omagh | 56 | 20 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| North Region | 136 | 39 | 53 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 5 |
Mr. Peter Bottomley
[holding answer 19 January 1990]: The Department of the Environment roads service maintains a total of 43 protected routes in Northern Ireland. It should be noted that some of these routes are common to more than one district council area.
| District council area | Number of protected routes1 |
| 1. Antrim | 6 |
| 2. Ards | 6 |
| 3. Armagh | 4 |
| 4. Ballymena | 4 |
| 5. Ballymoney | 3 |
| 6. Banbridge | 3 |
| 7. Belfast | 7 |
| 8. Carrickfergus | 2 |
| 9. Castlereagh | 5 |
| 10. Coleraine | 5 |
| 11. Cookstown | 3 |
| 12. Craigavon | 6 |
| 13. Derry | 4 |
| 14. Down | 5 |
| 15. Dungannon | 3 |
| 16. Fermanagh | 3 |
| 17. Larne | 4 |
| 18. Limavady | 4 |
| 19. Lisburn | 8 |
| 20. Magherafelt | 4 |
| 21. Moyle | 2 |
| 22. Newry and Mourne | 6 |
| 23. Newtownabbey | 5 |
| 24. North Down | 6 |
| 25. Omagh | 3 |
| 26. Strabane | 1 |
| 1 A protected route is one on which the creation of new accesses and the intensification of use of existing accesses is curtailed as far as is practical in order to preserve a high level of service for the main road users and in the interests of road safety. | |