HC Deb 15 July 1993 vol 228 cc666-7W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the level of arts services budgets in each local authority in Wales since 1990.

Sir Wyn Roberts

Individual local authorities decide what to spend on the arts from within their available resources. Information on the budgets they have set for museums and art galleries is given in the following table. Other arts spending is not separately identifiable from local authority budget returns.

1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94
£000 £000 £000 £000
Rhondda 106 152 262 158
Rhymney Valley 134 241 98 216
Taff Ely 0 0 0 0
Brecknock 0 0 0 0
Montgomeryshire 0 0 0 0
Radnorshire 0 0 0 0
Cardiff 0 0 0 0
Vale of Glamorgan 0 0 0 0
Port Talbot 0 0 0 0
Lliw Valley 0 0 0 0
Neath 78 94 93 108
Swansea 944 1,022 1,335 1,136
Clwyd 892 559 444 392
Dyfed 337 368 450 393
Gwent 0 0 0 0
Gwynedd 725 193 223 157
Mid Glamorgan 0 0 0 0
Powys 175 208 227 228
South Glamorgan 0 0 0 0
West Glamorgan 0 66 80 93
Total Districts 2,426 3,087 3,413 3,370
Total Counties 2,129 1,394 1,424 1,263
Total Wales 4,555 4,481 4,837 4,633
1 Local authority budgets.