HC Deb 01 June 1981 vol 5 cc242-3W
Mr. Alec Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many of the 1,442 households accepted by district councils in Wales in the third quarter of 1980 as homeless or threatened with homelessness were married women with children.

Mr. Nicholas Edwards

The total of 1,442 includes 422 lone-parent families with children; on the basis of information available it is not possible to tell how many of these households were headed by a married woman.

1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Clwyd 1,692 1,836 1,693 1,759 1,980 1,803
Dyfed 696 772 464 681 706 524
Gwent 1,395 1,280 1,225 1,362 1,748 1,539
Gwynedd 819 1,108 1,516 1,725 1,841 795
Mid Glamorgan 4,009 5,698 6,988 6,984 8,532 4,586
Powys 515 569 511 565 561 564
South Glamorgan 1,483 1,422 1,231 990 1,379 1,557
West Glamorgan 2,432 2,425 2,411 2,957 2,489 2,127
WALES 13,041 15,110 16,039 17,023 19,236 13,495

Note

The cost per person per day of meals could not be supplied except at disproportionate cost. Entitlement to the receipt of meals on wheels is a matter for the discretion of the relevant local authority.