§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate in respect of the years 1982–83 and 1983–84 the reduction, by local authority area, in housing subsidies paid to local authorities (a) in total and (b) as a result of the reduced number of local authority dwellings.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsBased on returns made by local authorities to the Welsh Office, it is estimated that the changes in annual entitlement to central Government housing subsidies by individual Welsh local authorities in respect of 1982–83 and 1983–84 are as follows:
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Local Authority Difference in entitlement between 1981–82 and 1982–83 Difference in entitlement between 1982–83 and 1983–84 Carmarthen - 288,937 + 121,574 Ceridigion - 454,224 + 59,157 Colwyn - 346,690 No subsidy entitlement Cynon Valley - 565,398 - 335,666 Delyn - 407,123 No subsidy entitlement Dinefwr No subsidy entitlement No subsidy entitlement Dwyfor - 3,042 No subsidy entitlement Glyndwr - 294,215 No subsidy entitlement Islwyn - 893,715 No subsidy entitlement Llanelli - 1,215,381 No subsidy entitlement Lliw Valley - 882,578 + 222,601 Meirionydd - 343,632 - 17,007 Merthyr Tydfil - 891,708 - 23,176 Monmouth - 473,423 + 46,612 Montgomery - 269,880 No subsidy entitlement Neath - 653,412 No subsidy entitlement Newport - 1,452,868 - 223,327 Ogwr - 1,437,670 -141,561 Preseli - 617,597 No subsidy entitlement Radnor - 196,791 - 26,323 Rhondda - 543,973 + 6,290 Rhuddlan No subsidy entitlement No subsidy entitlement Rhymney Valley - 1,462,285 - 94,631 South Pembs - 519,977 - 88,370 Swansea - 866,494 No subsidy entitlement Taff Ely - 936,939 No subsidy entitlement Torfaen - 986,120 +248,962 Vale of Glamorgan - 710,529 - 149,693 Wrexham No subsidy entitlement No subsidy entitlement Ynys Mon - 854,623 No subsidy entitlement The Department does not have information on the extent to which these sums have been influenced by reductions in the number of local authority dwellings.