§ Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his latest estimate of the number of (a) 303W households owning their home with a building society mortgage, (b) households owning their home with a mortgage from another source, (c) households owning their home outright and (d) all households in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsOf 1,021,000 households in Wales enumerated by the 1981 census, I estimate that 211,000 owned their home with a building society mortgage, 75,000 owned their home with a mortgage from another source and 347,000 owned their home outright.
Exchequer housing subsidies to local authorities (per dwelling) £ cash Rate fund contributions to local authority housing revenue accounts (per dwelling) £ cash Total number of local authority dwellings (average for the year) 1978–79 169.44 20.40 282,631 1979–80 200.88 36.33 285,025 1980–81 227.91 46.13 286,735 1981–82 115.86 39.46 283,108 1982–83 36.62 40.85 271,863 1983–84* 35.85 35.06 261,428 1984–85† 27.77 19.84 252,000 * Provisional. † Estimated.