§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the answer of 13 April, Official Report, column 438, concerning housing statistics, if he will now publish a table showing for each of the years from 1977–78 to 1982–83 the average housing capital expenditure per 1,000 population based on a consistent definition of population and capital outturn.
§ Mr. John Stradling ThomasThe information is given in the following table.
Further editions of Welsh Housing Statistics will give actual capital expenditure on housing in each of the five latest years and a five year average expenditure per head.
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1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 Llanelli 40.4 40.6 42.2 31.1 23.7 32.1 Preseli 27.7 22.9 26.9 18.9 32.5 42.2 South Pembrokeshire 41.0 48.8 48.1 45.8 31.3 49.2 Blaenau Gwent 51.3 53.5 98.0 111.0 62.6 123.7 Islwyn 34.8 47.9 53.9 49.0 36.0 73.0 Monmouth 24.4 26.0 28.3 23.0 27.5 46.1 Newport 97.1 60.4 61.4 53.4 52.1 69.6 Torfaen 45.5 51.8 56.3 40.8 38.0 70.0 Aberconwy 17.6 29.8 28.9 28.9 15.4 26.0 Arfon 26.0 34.1 31.5 45.6 46.5 47.5 Dwyfor 30.6 26.6 27.9 28.3 22.7 40.4 Meirionnydd 23.1 34.4 41.2 30.0 25.6 39.6 Ynys Mon 40.0 36.1 47.0 41.2 22.0 37.5 Cynon Valley 40.7 52.0 46.4 36.7 34.0 40.8 Merthyr Tydfil 53.1 62.1 75.1 57.9 38.9 43.7 Ogwr 33.8 43.2 54.7 39.7 35.1 41.4 Rhondda 39.5 67.0 80.9 74. 60.7 82.7 Rhymney Valley 53.3 31.5 52.7 46.4 32.6 50.2 Taff-Ely 34.0 36.9 53.7 44.3 49.0 65.8 Brecknock 30.3 29.2 25.5 19.6 23.6 24.1 Montgomery 22.2 25.4 17.9 24.1 13.8 26.5 Radnor 17.6 25.6 25.0 30.8 25.7 68.6 Cardiff 30.3 38.0 49.4 40.8 37.7 46.5 Vale of Glamorgan 29.4 28.3 30.3 29.4 15.5 35.8 Afan 33.7 41.2 24.8 22.8 17.2 36.9 Lliw Valley 32.1 50.7 68.2 55.3 44.1 61.2 Neath 28.8 34.2 30.3 22.5 25.3 55.8 Swansea 27.8 31.5 30.7 33.1 34.3 51.0 *Expenditure in each year divided by population in june of each year