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Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what recent representations he has received on the effectiveness of antisocial behaviour orders in Northern Ireland; [78913]

(2) what plans he has to carry out an assessment of the effectiveness of antisocial behaviour orders in Northern Ireland; [78914]

(3) how many antisocial behaviour orders have been made in Northern Ireland in each parliamentary constituency since their introduction; [78915]

(4) what plans he has to introduce (a) parenting orders and (b) individual support orders alongside antisocial behaviour orders in Northern Ireland; [78916]


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(5) whether he plans to increase the powers of county courts to make an antisocial behaviour order where there are other related proceedings. [78917]

Mr. Hanson: The Government have not received any recent representations on the effectiveness of antisocial behaviour orders. As the Secretary of State announced in March, the Northern Ireland Office is planning to evaluate the implementation of antisocial behaviour orders during 2006-07.

The relevant authorities have notified the Northern Ireland Office of 13 antisocial behaviour orders being granted in Northern Ireland.

Area Number of orders

Ballymena Borough Council

2

Dungannon District Council

1

Larne District Council

3

Magherafelt District Council

1

Newry and Mourne City Council

1

Belfast City Council

(1)1

Coleraine Borough Council

(1)2

Derry City Council

(1)2

(1) Interim.

We do not collect data by parliamentary constituency.

There are currently no plans to empower county courts to be able to make antisocial behaviour orders where there are related proceedings. We continue to monitor the use of parenting orders and individual support orders in Great Britain in order to inform any consideration of these measures for Northern Ireland.

Assaults

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many assaults there have been within each local government authority area of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [89284]

Paul Goggins: The PSNI does not record information by local government authority. Details of assaults by district command unit are shown in the following table.


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Assaults by district command unit
DCU 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Antrim

707

506

611

649

554

Ards

739

762

849

755

798

East Belfast

826

1,010

1,058

923

918

North Belfast

1,814

1,651

1,694

1,596

1,721

South Belfast

2,379

2,280

2,291

2,119

2,356

West Belfast

1,068

1,080

1,098

1,165

1,198

Carrickfergus

384

358

393

371

403

Castlereagh

468

447

462

433

414

Larne

352

351

344

319

347

Lisburn

1,195

1,256

1,494

1,527

1,488

Newtownabbey

805

778

905

838

934

North Down

667

803

850

863

907

Armagh

486

525

493

484

489

Banbridge

533

571

556

555

578

Ballymena

634

736

837

936

849

Ballymoney

151

224

187

252

240

Coleraine

696

872

975

1,016

1,038

Cookstown

438

409

466

499

444

Craigavon

880

1,034

1,257

1,308

1,243

Dungannon and South Tyrone

455

453

507

495

547

Down

659

802

759

724

882

Fermanagh

382

447

425

443

567

Foyle

1,813

1,725

1,733

1,796

1,944

Limavady

414

479

486

570

601

Magherafelt

303

355

432

374

444

Moyle

170

212

192

203

189

Newry and Mourne

720

910

911

945

1,011

Omagh

606

664

733

664

650

Strabane

673

622

670

632

517

Northern Ireland

21,419

22,322

23,668

23,454

24,271

Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI.

Belfast-Dublin Railway Line

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding was allocated to track and rolling stock on the Belfast-Dublin railway line in each of the last 15 years. [89756]

David Cairns: Translink has provided the following details of investment in track and rolling stock on the Belfast-Dublin railway line from 1993. Unfortunately figures for 1991 and 1992 are not available.

(£)
Track Relay New Rolling Stock

1993

1,383

1994

2,300

3,400

1995

1,268

5,800

1996

5,661

3,100

1997

5,106

1,500

1998

1,440

1,500

1999

9,258

2000

4,738

2001

102

2002

37

2003

156

2004

250

2005

250


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