HC Deb 25 July 1978 vol 954 c693W
Mr. Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for Wales whether his Department will accept responsibility for the payment of the taxed costs of all appeals to the Lands Tribunal in respect of the amounts of compensation offered for properties acquired for the purpose of constructing the planned North Wales

County Councils Rate in the £* Rate-borne expenditure (£ per head, outturn prices)†
1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74
PRE-REORGANISATION:
Anglesey … … .720 .800 .360 19.8 31.5 41.3
Breconshire … … .630 .630 .240 15.2 15.7 15.7
Caernarvonshire … … .610‡ .640‡ .260‡ 19.1‡ 20.3‡ 20.5‡
Cardiganshire … … .490 .490 .185 12.5 12.2 13.5
Carmarthenshire … … .550‡ .495‡ .197‡ 16.2‡ 14.8‡ 14.2‡
Denbighshire … … .595‡ .675‡ .300‡ 20.9‡ 24.0‡ 25.3‡
Flintshire … … .610 .720 .350 26.7 31.8 34.0
Glamorgan§ … … .680‡ .680‡ .340‡ 22.9‡ 22.9‡ 26.9‡
Merioneth … … .570 .690 .265 19.3 22.6 23.0
Monmouthshire§ … … .700 .760 .360 22.4 25.3 28.4
Montgomeryshire … … .400 .400 .170 8.9 9.2 11.2
Pembrokeshire … … .530 .610 .250 23.3 30.1 29.0
Radnorshire … … .480 .560 .200 15.1 18.3 17.2
1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77
POST-REORGANISATION║:
Clwyd … … .440 .545 .640 68.7 92.1 108.1
Dyfed … … .434 .540‡ .565‡ 70.5 92.9‡ 98.4‡
Gwent … … .475 .550 .639 75.4 89.5 108.1
Gwynedd … … .475 .600 .620 71.2 96.2 105.8
Mid Glamorgan … … .491‡ .636‡ .683‡ 78.1‡ 106.6‡ 119.1‡
Powys … … .434 .517 .526 70.5 83.1 93.0
South Glamorgan … … .435 .520 .590 67.4 87.9 102.5
West Glamorgan … … .480 .630 .695 79.3 108.4 118.9
* County precept expressed as a rate in the pound. The figures for 1971–72 and 1972–73 have not been adjusted to take account of the revaluation of rateable values in April 1973. Between April 1972 and April 1973 rateable value in Wales increased by a factor of 2.35 as a result of revaluation Although the effect of revaluation varied among counties, this factor can be used as a general indication of its impact on rate poundages.
† Including variations in balances.
‡ Excluding poundages and expenditure for special county purposes in respect of service e.g. libraries provided by a county over only part of its area.
§ Excluding the county boroughs of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea in Glamorgan, and Newport in Monmouthshire.
║ The increased expenditure per head between 1973–74 and 1974–75 reflects, to some extent, shifts, resulting from reorganisation, in the pattern of responsibility for certain services between tiers of local government in Wales.

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