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Written Question
Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery
Wednesday 14th January 2026

Asked by: Alex Ballinger (Labour - Halesowen)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many investigations are being carried out by the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery; and how many of those investigations relate to the deaths of (a) members of the Armed Forces and (b) police officers.

Answered by Hilary Benn - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

We understand that there are currently 113 live investigations under the remit of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.

Within those 113 investigations, there were 35 victims who were military personnel and 16 police officers. This accounts for 44 of the 113 cases as some of these relate to multi-fatality incidents.