§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the percentage of households with at least one lone parent family with dependent children as a percentage of all households with dependent children for (i) each Welsh county, and (ii) Wales.
§ Mr. Mark RobinsonThe most recent information at a county level is that collected at the 1981 census and is as follows:
Percentage of households with dependent children* containing at least 1 one-parent family with dependent children percentage Clwyd 12.1 Dyfed 12.2 Gwent 13.1 Gwynedd 13.3 Mid Glamorgan 13.3 Powys 11.0 South Glamorgan 15.6 West Glamorgan 12.7 WALES 13.1 * Includes all persons under 16 and those under 25 who are never married and classified as a student at the census.