§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the number of school accidents where damage is done to the child because of the fragmentation of glass lenses in spectacles.
§ Mr. MoyleI have been asked to reply.
Figures are not collected centrally, but information available from eye hospitals, at which injuries resulting from breakage of glass lenses would be treated, indicates that the incidence of such accidents is very small. A recent study in Scotland found that of 55 serious eye injuries to children only one could be attributed to broken glass lenses.