§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list district by district the number of beds in 1979 and for the latest available year indicating the percentage increase or decrease.
§ Mr. Mark RobinsonInformation on the average daily number of available beds is given in the following table:
1979 1985 Percentage change Clwyd 3,052.5 2,811.6 -7.9 Dyfed1 2,564.6 2,237.4 -12.8 Gwent 3,882.6 3,619.4 -6.8 Gwynedd 1,569.5 1,610.5 +2.6 Mid Glamorgan 4,943.4 4,644.2 -6.1 Powys 1,265.5 1,057.3 -16.5
Average daily number of available beds per 1,000 population 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Clwyd 7.9 7.8 7.6 7.4 7.5 7.3 7.1 East Dyfed1 7.9 7.8 7.4 8.7 8.2 8.0 7.8 Pembrokeshire n/a n/a n/a 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 Gwenl 8.9 9.0 8.7 8.4 8.4 8.4 8.2 Gwynedd 6.9 6.9 6.7 6.6 6.5 6.6 6.9 Mid Glamorgan 9.2 9.0 8.9 8.8 8.8 8.9 8.7 Powys 11.8 11.0 10.5 10.3 9.8 9.8 9.5 South Glamorgan 9.2 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.0 9.0 West Glamorgan 7.1 7.1 7.0 7.1 7.1 7.0 7.1 Wales 8.5 8.4 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.9 7.9 1 Including figures for Pembrokeshire for 1979–81, when a single health authority served the whole of Dyfed.