§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the cost of damage to public and private property because of vandalism; and if he will provide a comparable total in respect of each of the past five years.
§ Mr. MillanI am not in a position to give reliable estimates of the cost of vandalism. The difficulties of making estimates in this field were indicated in the Report "Protection Against Vandalism" published in November 1975 by the Home Office Standing Committee on Crime Prevention.