asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, from the sources available to him, he can advise which countries require the compulsory fitting of laminated windscreens in motor vehicles.

So far as I am aware the fitting of laminated windscreens is compulsory in 11 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Iraq, South Africa, Canada and the United States.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what records are kept of the number of eye injuries caused by the shattering of toughened glass windscreens of motor cars; and if he is aware of any research into this subject undertaken in other countries.

Various studies have been undertaken both here and abroad. No complete record of eye injuries caused directly by the shattering of toughened glass windscreens is available; but I believe such injuries to be rare. In a recent survey by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, of about 1,000 incidents in which windscreens shattered on the road, without vehicle impact, there was no case of eye injury.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department keeps a record of the number of car accidents attributed to loss of vision resulting from the shattering of toughened glass windscreens.

No complete record of these accidents is aavilable. Investigations carried out in recent years by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory indicate that accidents caused by the shattering of a windscreen are very rare.