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Orange Order: Crimes of Violence

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many attacks were made on Orange halls in each constituency in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [168488]

Paul Goggins: PSNI has advised statistics in relation to recorded criminal damage offences involving an Orange Hall are only available from 2001-02 and are collated by District Command Unit rather than constituency. These are shown in the following table.

Criminal damage offences recorded where the location of the offence is an Orange Hall 2001-02—2006-07
	Recorded
DCU	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Antrim	1	1	2	1	1	0
Ards	3	2	1	0	0	1
East Belfast	1	1	0	0	0	0
North Belfast	1	0	3	1	2	2
South Belfast	0	0	0	0	0	1
West Belfast	0	0	0	0	1	0
Carrickfergus	0	0	0	0	0	0
Castlereagh	0	0	1	0	0	0
Down	3	3	1	1	4	2
Lisburn	5	2	2	2	3	1
Newtownabbey	0	0	1	1	0	0
North Down	0	1	0	0	1	1
Urban region	14	10	11	6	12	8
Armagh	3	3	3	1	2	5
Ballymena	1	0	2	2	1	2
Ballymoney	5	2	0	2	3	4
Banbridge	1	1	4	0	2	2
Coleraine	2	2	1	0	0	1
Cookstown	2	2	3	1	3	1
Craigavon	2	2	0	0	0	6
Dungannon	2	3	3	2	5	1
Fermanagh	1	0	2	2	0	0
Foyle	2	0	0	0	0	1
Lame	0	0	0	0	1	1
Limavady	0	0	0	1	0	1
Magherafelt	5	1	1	0	6	9
Moyle	2	2	1	0	0	0
Newry and Mourne	1	1	4	4	1	4
Omagh	0	1	3	5	2	4
Strabane	3	3	0	6	2	3
Rural region	32	23	27	26	28	45
Total	46	33	38	32	40	53
Note: These figures are provisional and may be subject to revision. Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI

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Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of attacks on Orange halls in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [168489]

Paul Goggins: PSNI has advised that statistics in relation to those charged with criminal damage offences involving an Orange Hall are only available from 2001-02. The table details these statistics.

The information requested in relation to convictions of those charged would necessitate a manual trawl through files across Departments and police districts which would incur a disproportionate cost.

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Criminal damage offences recorded and cleared where the location of the offence is an Orange Hall
	Number of criminal damage offences cleared by means of charge/summons
2001-02	0
2002-03	1
2003-04	0
2004-05	0
2005-06	1
2006-07	0
Note: These figures are provisional and may be subject to revision. Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI

Police Service of Northern Ireland: Religion

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many and what percentage of (a) applicants and (b) appointees to the Police Service of Northern Ireland were (i) Protestant, (ii) Roman Catholic and (iii) of non-determined religion in each of the last four years. [168000]

Paul Goggins: I am advised that as of 23 November 2007, the number of people in each category of applicants and appointees in each of the last four years is as; follows:

	Protestant		Catholic		Not determined
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Applicants
2004	6,713	62.90	3,691	34.59	268	2.51
2005	8,456	61.29	4,909	35.58	431	3.12
2006	9,152	58.69	5,953	38.18	488	3.13
2007	3,819	51.28	3,310	44.45	318	4.27
Appointees
2004	303	50.67	290	48.49	5	0.84
2005	218	48.55	227	50.56	4	0.89
2006	200	49.26	202	49.75	4	0.99
2007	177	48.36	187	51.09	2	0.55

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