asked the Minister for the Environment if he will state for each year for which statistics are available the number and amount of claims (1) paid and (2) still to be processed for malicious damage; and if he will give a county-by-county breakdown of the pat-air tern of such claims, indicating the categories of damage, such as schools, cars, houses, public buildings, under which such claims fall.
Written Answers. - Malicious Damage Claims.
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The precise information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. However, expenditure by local authorities on foot of compensation for malicious injuries for 1977, the latest year for which completed figures are available, and for 1976, are set out in the publications Returns of Local Taxation for those years, which are available in the Library.
Similar information, on an estimated basis, is available for 1978-1980 in this Department's publication Local Authority Estimates 1980 with Provisional Out-turn Figures for 1979, and similar publications for 1978 and 1979, which are also available in the Library.