§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table indicating for each of the past three years the expenditure of each local housing authority in Wales on improvement grants and the number of applicants to which these grants were paid and the number of applications which were outstanding for each district for house improvement grants at 1 April; how many of these were made before 31 March 1984; and what is the estimated cost of the outstanding applications.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe available information is given in the following table. Information is not held centrally on the dates on which outstanding applications were made.
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Expenditure 1983–84 £000 Number of renovation grants paid 1983–84 Expenditure 1984–85 £000 Number of renovation grants paid 1984–85 Expenditure 1985–86* £000 Number of renovation grants paid 1985–86* Number of applications outstanding 31 December 1985† Estimated cost of outstanding applications £000 Clwyd: Alyn and Deeside 781 376 844 250 230 86 471 1,507 Colwyn 1,072 266 692 162 211 34 196 627 Delyn 1,098 404 459 129 307 122 264 845 Glyndwr 1,507 470 1,511 353 423 97 535 1,712 Rhuddlan 67 53 158 56 29 25 120 384 Wrexham Maelor 500 178 407 109 250 83 471 1,507 Dyfed: Carmarthen 6,275 1,540 2,766 819 1,010 251 554 1,773 Ceredigion 2,941 661 1,833 415 797 274 1,188 3,802 Dinefwr 1,360 239 840 329 324 48 528 1,690 Llanelli 2,119 1,086 1,795 886 634 290 162 518 Preseli 2,411 569 2,512 468 860 182 913 2,922 South Pembrokeshire 2,607 666 3,082 695 1,216 272 447 1,430 Gwent: Blaenau Gwent 6,141 1,395 3,496 1,160 934 334 7,469 23,901 Islwyn 2,748 822 2,500 1,049 1,549 673 1,462 4,678 Monmouth 3,132 836 1,058 381 353 143 205 656 Newport 4,019 1,070 2,093 703 1,273 325 2,281 7,299 Torfaen 1,562 473 2,082 604 778 203 1,921 6,147 Gwynedd: Aberconwy 763 250 530 209 359 151 42 134 Arfon 1,913 627 1,913 505 1,323 324 577 1,846 Dwyfor 2,560 757 1,190 276 228 78 682 2,182 Meirionnydd 2,599 824 3,086 877 1,248 343 183 586 Ynys Mon 3,950 949 1,116 278 880 248 794 2,541 Mid Glamorgan: Cynon Valley 2,554 615 1,326 397 881 211 2,451 7,843 Merthyr Tydfil 2,419 1,151 1,400 576 901 294 2,086 6,675 Ogwr 2,730 792 3,083 1,408 1,328 604 1,251 4,003 Rhondda 9,016 3,095 9,558 2,999 4,634 1,575 9,347 29,910 Rhymney Valley 2,918 861 3,303 840 986 314 3,954 12,653 Taff-Ely 5,902 2,036 3,691 1,086 1,332 435 1,034 3,309 Powys: Brecknock 2,049 660 984 276 283 90 993 3,178 Montgomery 2,585 781 1,094 297 338 107 898 2,874 Radnor 920 355 552 151 316 112 530 1,696 South Glamorgan: Cardiff 10,623 3,392 6,904 2,281 4,903 1,621 7,819 25,021 Vale of Glamorgan 3,409 1,050 2,489 823 775 229 1,613 5,162 West Glamorgan Lliw Valley 1,314 463 1,081 364 670 212 452 1,446 Neath 2,602 1,237 1,360 554 521 195 1,569 5,021 Port Talbot/Afan 500 192 361 148 346 163 1,241 3,971 Swansea 5,796 1,629 5,748 2,279 3,538 1,293 1,073 3,434 Wales total 107,462 32,820 78,897 25,192 36,968 12,041 57,776 184,883 * First nine months only. † Latest available figure.