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Plastic Bullets

Volume 298: debated on Friday 18 July 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many plastic bullets were fired in Northern Ireland on (a) 6 and (b) 7 July. [7482]

[holding answer 10 July 1997]: Between 6 am on 6 July 1997 and 6 am on 7 July 1997, a total of 1,608 plastic baton rounds were fired by the security forces; and between 6 am on 7 July 1997 and 6 am on 8 July 1997, a total of 820 were fired.