§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table of housing for each of the district councils for Wales showing(a) the total number of houses and flats currently owned by the council and (b) the number of these which were built prior to 1940.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettEstimates of dwellings built before 1940 are not available: however, data are provided in the table from the 1986 Welsh inter-censal survey showing the proportion of the 1986 local authority stock built before 1945.
Local authority stock1 Local authority stock of houses and flats at 1 April 1991 Estimated percentage built prior to 19452 Aberconwy 2,516 36 Alyn and Deeside 4,883 30 Arfon 4,800 41 Blaenau Gwent 9,777 14 Brecknock 2,652 15 Cardiff 18,816 26 Carmarthen 3,357 16 Ceredigion 3,193 11 Colwyn 2,450 30 Cynon Valley 4,924 11 Delyn 4,512 20 Dinefwr 2,398 16 Dwyfor 1,398 22 Glyndŵr 2,822 25 Islwyn 5,807 19 Llanelli 6,580 25 Lliw Valley 4,850 33 Meirionnydd 1,962 21 Merthyr Tydfil 6,453 11 Monmouth 4,698 18 Montgomery 4,164 15 Neath 5,219 24 Newport 12,784 7 Ogwr 9,041 14 Port Talbot 5,483 20 Preseli Pembrokeshire 5,333 14 Radnorshire 1,124 12 Rhondda 4,797 12 Rhuddlan 2,608 27 Rhymney Valley 9,508 13 South Pembrokeshire 2,672 10 Swansea 16,300 29 Taff-Ely 6,766 18 Torfaen 12,936 13 Vale of Glamorgan 5,808 20 Wrexham Maelor 14,908 26 Ynys Môn 5,277 13 TOTAL 223,576 20 Source: Welsh Office local authority returns.
Welsh Inter Censal Survey, 1986.
1Montgomery includes 1,170 rented New Town dwellings in Newtown at 1 April 1991. Newtown dwellings are also included in the calculation of the percentage for Montgomery, as are those of Cwmbran for Torfaen.
2 These estimates relate to the stock of local authority dwellings in April 1986.