§ Mr. LivseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the outstanding(a) total and (b) per capita level of loan debt of Swansea City Council at 31 March 1997. [67285]
Mr. Jon Owen JonesThe table in the official record of the answer I gave on this matter on 19 November 1998,Official Report, columns 806–07, excluded the information for Swansea. The complete table including Swansea is as follows:
Outstanding loan debt as at 31 March 19971 £000 £per head Blaenau Gwent 62,544 857 Bridgend 90,155 690 Caerphilly 94,757 560 Cardiff 210,456 668 Carmarthenshire 114,822 679 Ceredigion 44,380 638 Conwy 75,111 679 Denbighshire 69,231 766 Flintshire 102,728 709 Gwynedd 86,287 733 Isle of Anglesey 55,723 831 Merthyr Tydfil 41,480 714 Monmouthshire 44,522 513 Neath Port Talbot 108,393 777 Newport 114,482 837 Pembrokeshire 85,934 756 Powys 101,715 818 Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 139,068 579 Swansea 196,049 852 Torfaen 76,066 841 The Vale of Glamorgan 78,033 657 Wrexham 83,316 666 Wales 2,075,253 710 1 Outstanding loan debt on council fund. Includes amounts of debt inherited from predecessor authorities for which the authority has agreed to pay financing costs. Source:
Outstanding loan debt as set out in The Local Government Finance Report (Wales) 1998–99 (Revised)