§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many pensioner households in Wales have central heating; and what percentage of total pensioner households this represents.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has to date published only a selection of 1991 census results in the county monitor series, CEN 91 CM. Detailed information on households containing only pensioners is not yet available. The figures given are provisional as they are derived directly from rounded county statistics in the monitors. National level and more detailed results will be released by OPCS in November 1992 and in county reports this year and in 1993.
In Wales, an estimated 309,000 households with central heating in some or all rooms contained at least one pensioner and represented 76 per cent. of all households where pensioners lived.