HC Deb 28 February 1990 vol 168 c215W
Sir David Steel

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the total Government expenditure has been for water supplies in Wales in the last, and current, financial years; and what these sums represent per head of population.

Mr. Grist

In 1988–89 expenditure by the Department on water supplies and sewerage services on grants under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Acts 1944 to 1971 and the Industrial Development Act 1982 amounted to

County 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 11989
Clwyd 334 364 343 336 320 336
Dyfed 1,065 1,088 1,087 1,048 993 1,025
Gwent 93 139 151 220 204 236
Gwynedd 477 466 414 462 415 377
Powys 492 490 487 479 456 441
Mid Glamorgan 84 34 32 60 89 63
South Glamorgan 96 48 55 90 103 98
West Glamorgan 103 64 53 115 111 101
Totals 2,744 2,693 2,622 2,810 2,691 2,677
1 Provisional.

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