§ Mr. Ray Powellasked the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the rate support grant as a percentage of total rate fund expenditure for each local authority in Wales for each year since 1978–79.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsIt is not possible to provide meaningful figures for years before 1981–82 as rate support grants then were not directly linked to the expenditure of individual councils. Information for subsequent years is as follows. Percentages for 1981–82 and 1982–83 are based on block grant and total expenditure figures published in the most recent supplementary rate support grant reports for those years. The percentages for 1983–84 are provisional estimates based on local authorities' claims for block grant, constrained by a common factor to ensure grant paid does not exceed grant provision as specified in the Welsh rate support grant report for 1983–84. As such they do not reflect the grant adjustments that will be made in a future supplementary report to take account of authorities' performance in relation to the expenditure guidance issued for the present year.
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Rate support grant as a percentage of total rate fund expenditure 1981–82* 1982–83 1983–84 District Councils Alyn and Deeside 54.7 62.1 61.9
1981–82* 1982–83 1983–84 Colwyn 56.8 58.2 59.1 Delyn 62.5 67.8 65.8 Glyndŵr 61.0 66.5 68.0 Rhuddlan 57.1 58.2 61.8 Wrexham Maelor 58.9 58.1 63.9 Carmarthen 70.0 73.8 73.9 Ceredigion 69.5 76.8 76.5 Dinefwr 75.1 82.2 83.4 Llanelli 67.8 69.1 70.4 Preseli 58.2 60.7 64.4 South Pembrokeshire 29.3 45.9 44.7 Blaenau Gwent 69.1 66.5 74.3 Islwyn 72.3 75.4 78.0 Monmouth 60.3 63.2 60.8 Newport 41.6 47.0 51.6 Torfaen 59.9 58.7 58.5 Aberconwy 58.6 60.0 61.2 Arfon 66.1 73.1 71.7 Dwyfor 63.2 68.1 69.0 Meirionnydd 49.0 54.2 59.5 Ynys Mên 59.9 61.0 62.4 Cynon Valley 75.4 76.8 77.9 Merthyr Tydfil 72.2 71.2 73.1 Ogwr 65.4 70.8 69.1 Rhondda 82.7 84.5 83.9 Rhymney Valley 72.2 73.6 74.6 Taff-Ely 59.7 60.5 60.0 Brecknock 72.0 72.9 74.4 Montgomery 77.6 75.1 75.2 Radnor 59.5 68.8 66.0 Cardiff 55.4 60.4 65.1 Vale of Glamorgan 48.4 57.3 54.7 Afan 29.2 44.3 37.8 Lliw Valley 70.1 71.6 69.6 Neath 62.6 70.1 69.6 Swansea 61.1 59.2 65.4 County Councils Clwyd 58.8 62.4 61.0 Dyfed 63.4 67.3 65.0 Gwent 59.1 64.0 61.2 Gwynedd 63.2 65.5 63.8 Mid Glamorgan 71.6 73.4 71.3 Powys 73.7 75.6 73.4 South Glamorgan 50.6 54.0 51.0 West Glamorgan 54.2 60.3 57.3 * The definition of total expenditure for block grant purposes is gross of interest receipts on revenue balances in 1981–82, and net of this item in both 1982–83 and 1983–84. For this reason the grant percentages shown for 1981.82 are lower than they would have been had the later definition applied.