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Ministry of Defence: Government Responses

Answer

Information regarding Army bomb disposal callouts between 2012-2018 can be found in the tables below. Following a review of data held by the Army, this also updates figures previously supplied in response to Questions 179144 and 179145:

1 July 2012 – 30 June 2014

LOCATION	TASKS*	IED DECLARATION	HOAX DECLRATION
GB	113	103	52
NI**	273	134	178
UK total	386	237	230

1 July 2014 – 30 June 2016

LOCATION	TASKS*	IED DECLARATION	HOAX DECLRATION
GB	120	78	40
NI**	144	83	83
UK total	264	161	123

1 July 2016 – 30 June 2018

LOCATION	TASKS*	IED DECLARATION	HOAX DECLRATION
GB	120	589***	44
NI**	94	48	49
UK total	214	627	93

* ‘Tasks’ refers to IED callouts (any task that may subsequently be classified by declaration as a Find, False, Hoax, IED, Explosion or Search Assist). This does not include callouts for incidents involving other items such as Conventional Munitions Disposal.

** All incidents requiring explosive ordnance disposal experts in Northern Ireland are dealt with solely by military personnel.

*** The high number of IED declarations between 1 July 2016 – 30 June 2018 is due to a task that yielded over 300 arrowhead type IEDs.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

193391

Session

2017-19

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Bomb Disposal: Northern Ireland
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Subjects

Ministry of Defence

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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