Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made by the Government on establishing the number of victims of IRA-Gaddifi sponsored violence in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

Establishing such numbers could be difficult, and the Northern Ireland Office does not hold information to allow us to establish this.

The Lockerbie bombing was directly linked to Libya. It is more problematic to establish involvement of a third party when they are not directly responsible for a particular act.