§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will publish the research report on experimental reparation schemes which was submitted to his Department in April 1988 and which according to the Green Paper, "Punishment, Custody and the Community" was to be published by the end of 1988.
§ Mr. John Patten[holding answer 27 October 1989]: Assessment of the four experimental reparation schemes is part of a wider study of reparation and mediation. Some results have been published but the main report has taken longer to prepare for publication than we expected. We hope to publish it in the next few months.