§ Mr. HainTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give figures for the number of people accepted by local authorities in Wales as homeless under part III of the Housing Act 1985 between January and December 1991, by district, compared with the previous year.
§ Mr. Nicholas BennettThe information is given in the table:246W
Number of persons in households accepted as homeless under part III of the Housing Act 1985, by district 1990 1991 Aberconwy 137 104 Alyn and Deeside 474 499 Arfon 77 93 Blaenau Gwent 841 761 Brecknock 269 318 Cardiff1 2,483 — Carmarthen 189 227 Ceredigion 331 373 Colwyn 103 178 Cynon Valley 623 1,017 Delyn 825 683 Dinefwr 181 410 Dwyfor 162 127 Glyndwr 46 87 Islwyn1 370 — Llanelli 297 383 Lliw Valley 338 284 Meirionnydd 250 257 Merthyr Tydfil 496 365 Monmouth 281 388 Montgomeryshire 188 259 Neath 610 656 Newport 2,696 2,936 Ogwr 1,332 1,671 Port Talbot (Afan) 303 340 Preseli Pembrokeshire 209 255 Radnorshire 64 45 Rhondda 166 358 Rhuddlan 293 177 Rhymney Valley1 439 — South Pembrokeshire 248 205 Swansea2 450 1,779 Taff-Ely 568 715 Torfaen 1,216 1,038 Vale of Glamorgan 1,160 1,184 Wrexham Maelor 863 730 Ynys Môn 97 111 Source: Welsh Office local authority returns. 1 Information is not yet available for Cardiff, Islwyn and Rhymney Valley. 2 It is known that the figure for 1990 for Swansea is under-recorded.