§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of his Department's researches into the causes of vandalism.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe Home Office Research Unit has recently completed a study of the relationship between aspects of the design of buses and vandalism experienced on them; the report awaits publication. Reports of three other studies should be available next year; these deal with the efficacy of different ways of measuring vandalism, the involvement in vandalism and other delinquency of a sample of schoolboys in Liverpool, and the relationship between levels of vandalism and the design of housing estates.