HC Deb 01 March 1994 vol 238 cc649-50W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each of the last four years, and for the current year to date(a) the location and (b) the Richter scale measurement of earth tremors that have occurred; and what structural damage was reported.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has placed the information requested in the Library of the House. The British Geological Survey has located 1,478 earthquakes in the United Kingdom and its offshore area in the period January 1990 to mid-February 1994. Two of these, at Bishop's Castle on 2 April 1990 and at Caernarfon on 19 July 1992, caused slight damage in Wales.

Capital receipts from the sales of council houses
(£'000s)
1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
Alyn and Deeside 2,257 3,723 2,213 1,078 1,030
Colwyn 1,305 1,025 705 378 379
Delyn 1,070 1,928 1,332 894 806
Glyndwr 1,875 1,933 868 471 524
Rhuddlan 1,541 1,413 832 535 362
Wrexham Maelor 4,433 10,385 4,328 3,191 2,759
Carmarthen 1,549 1,793 1,651 1,182 1,040
Ceredigion 2,291 3,133 1,843 1,288 1,565
Dinefwr 1,198 1,153 1,163 600 450
Llanelli 3,258 3,317 2,336 2,060 1,489
Preseli Pembrokeshire 3,137 4,214 2,333 1,485 1,774
South Pembrokeshire 1,745 1,938 1,124 829 516

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