§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each housing authority the amount in rent revenue that was a contribution towards housing benefit in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [60308]
Mr. Jon Owen JonesThe figures in the table represent the difference between the cost of rent rebates incurred by local authorities and the amount of Housing Revenue Account Subsidy paid by the Welsh Office. The data for 1997–98 and 1998–99 are provisional.
Authority 1996–971 1997–982 1998–993 Blaenau Gwent CBC 448,107 774,684 1,416,072 Bridgend CBC 3,953,365 4,105,790 4,321,524 Caerphilly CBC 3,901,369 3,915,922 4,672,646 Cardiff—City & County 9,166,609 9,879,371 10,393,608 Carmarthenshire CC 2,087,998 2,232,988 2,610,614 Ceredigion CC 1,380,258 1,420,000 1,508,120 Conwy CBC 1,697,915 1,754,885 1,823,906 Denbighshire CC 2,637,471 2,516,268 2,857,120 Flintshire CC 4,175,219 4,312,925 4,168,189 Gwynedd CC 2,946,009 3,207,923 3,459,688 Isle of Anglesey CC 1,761,592 1,888,661 2,146,116 Merthyr Tydfil CBC 113,957 225,573 484,304 Monmouthshire CC 2,486,877 2,643,074 2,797,138 Neath Port Talbot CBC 2,413,550 2,951,221 3,313,655 Newport CBC 8,175,107 8,095,709 9,724,678 Pembrokeshire CC 4,619,845 4,822,248 5,088,105 Powys CC 4,494,447 4,509,620 4,754,372 Rhondda Cynon Taff CBC 0 0 0 Swansea—City & County 2,666,288 [...]2,910,645 3,407,243 Torfaen CBC 7,865,355 8,235,748 9,174,681 Vale of Glamorgan CBC 4,407,682 4,368,199 4,395,570 Wrexham CBC 5,761,081 6,075,570 6,819,833 1Data from the HRAS Claim Form, Audit Final 1996–97 2Data from the HRAS Claim Form, Advance Final 1997–98 3Data from the HRAS Claim Form, Second Advance 1998–99