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Mr. McNamara
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will update the answer of 2 November 1998, Official Report, columns 363–64, on terrorist organisations, (a) to indicate the profile of the politically motivated prison population in Northern Ireland by location, status and perceived affiliation and (b) to indicate the estimate of prisoner releases for each perceived affiliation projected for each quarter up to 30 September 2000. [78159]
Mr. Ingram
The information is as follows:Table A shows the perceived paramilitary affiliations of prisoners at HMP Maze.
| Table B | ||||||||
| 1999 | 2000 | |||||||
| Perceived affiliation | Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Total |
| INLA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Loyalist | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| LVF | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| NT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| PIRA | 0 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 33 |
| Rep Sym | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| RHC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| UDA | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 19 |
| UFF | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| UVF | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| Total | 2 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 77 |