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Table 2: Waiting list by length of time at December 2006 (the breakdown of the waiting list is a snapshot of applicants for Housing Executive properties on the waiting list on the last day of the month
Housing Executive District	<Months 5	<6 months and 1 year	1 year and <2 years	2 years or more	Grand total
Antrim	240	246	191	249	926
Armagh	225	205	144	196	770
Ballycastle	70	62	52	117	301
Ballymena	334	354	272	373	1,333
Ballymoney	112	119	80	113	424
Banbridge	204	162	115	13	619
Bangor	396	391	339	641	1,767
Belfast 1	225	229	196	428	1,078
Balfast 2	367	393	307	569	1,636
Balfast 3	186	223	211	418	1,038
Balfast 4	240	208	168	310	926
Balfast 5	240	67	43	203	753
Balfast 6	303	284	240	411	1,238
Balfast 7	475	447	358	678	1,958
Carrickfergus	211	208	156	367	942
Castlereagh	258	268	214	36	101
Coleraine	333	280	237	299	1,149
Cookstown	92	99	71	78	340
Downpatrick	254	295	203	393	1,145
Dungannon	197	170	140	209	716
Fermanagh	238	253	180	341	1,012
Larne	165	127	61	104	457
Limavady	167	134	102	132	535
Lisburn Antrim Street	440	387	302	558	1,687
Lisburn Dairy Farm	187	175	104	123	589
Londonderry 1	164	192	143	243	742
Londonderry 2	198	193	118	150	659
Londonderry 3	191	201	42	160	694
Lurgan	266	246	178	272	962
Magherafelt	116	128	86	128	458
Newry	393	374	366	546	1,679
Newtownabbey 1	177	148	134	259	718
Newtownabbey 2	185	212	143	239	779
Newtownards	330	340	278	473	1,421
Omagh	193	152	89	145	579
Portadown	223	182	111	116	632
Strabane	159	120	98	157	534
Grand total	8,754	8,374	6,472	10,697	34,297

Local Government Reorganisation

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006 to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman), Official Report, columns 793-94W, on local government reorganisation, whether a more detailed estimate of the costs associated with implementation of the Review of Public Administration’s decisions in relation to local government has now emerged. [119866]

David Cairns: Work is continuing to determine these costs.

Pupil Exclusions: Violence

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many pupils in each education and library board area were excluded (a) temporarily and (b) permanently from school for violent behaviour in each of the last five years. [123507]

Maria Eagle: From the 2002-03 school year, statistics on the reasons for suspension have been gathered annually from each education and library board and relate to the number of individual suspensions, not to the number of pupils suspended.

Table 1 details the number of suspensions^{(1 )}for physical attacks on staff, in each education and library board, in the 2002-03 to 2004-05 school years:

Table 1: Physical attacks on staff
Education and library board	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Belfast	75	73	84
Western	99	72	49
North Eastern	91	49	51
South Eastern	64	79	57
Southern	36	47	21
NI total	365	320	262
(1) The count of occasions is based on each incidence of suspension, where an incident is defined as a count from the first day a pupil was suspended until the last day suspended. Prior to 2004-05, the count of occasions was based on each record of suspension identified by the education and library boards, and in some instances longer periods of suspension may have had more than one record. This change is due to an improvement in the data collection systems for suspensions in the education and library boards, which has enabled better analysis of the data. As a result, the number of occasions pupils were suspended in 2004-05 has decreased from previous years. However, care should be taken when comparing the number of occasions in 2004-05 with the number of occasions in previous years.

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