§ Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales he will list by local housing authority,(a) the amount each authority has used from the sale of council houses since April 1981 to pay off its debts, (b) the amount each authority currently has on deposit from the sale of council houses and (c) the amount saved in interest payments on debts in the case of (a) and the amount received in interest in the case of (b). [40689]
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe available information is given in the following tables.
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£000 Authority Usable receipts from the sale of council houses available at 31 March 1995 Outstanding loan debt as at 31 March 1995 Alyn and Deeside 521 35,067 Colwyn 569 27,763 Delyn 0 32,279 Glyndwr 456 11,980 Rhuddlan 397 27,743 Wrexham Maelor 992 74,603 Carmarthen 776 35,755 Ceredigion 1,170 21,618 Dinefwr 608 28,115 Llanelli 0 47,698 Preseli Pembrokeshire 2,597 41,828 South Pembrokeshire 1,209 21,090 Blaenau Gwent 2,199 103,856 Islwyn 390 50,848 Monmouth 3,585 45,849 Newport 7,642 122,004 Torfaen 2,660 83,132 Aberconwy 247 20,265 Arfon 0 29,695 Dwyfor 303 15,939 Meirionnydd 0 10,635 Ynys Mon 246 53,675 Cynon Valley 0 52,914 Merthyr Tydfil 345 64,194 Ogwr 633 74,913 Rhondda 0 87,253 Rhymney Valley 0 71,738 Taff Ely 532 41,957 Brecknock 1,188 31,614 Montgomeryshire 689 23,199 Radnorshire 399 13,239 Cardiff 7,053 183,971 Vale of Glamorgan 6,702 60,004 Port Talbot 0 40,166 Lliw Valley 0 39,742 Neath 0 39,981 Swansea 242 135,631 Clwyd n/a 145,656 Dyfed n/a 118,889 Gwent n/a 171,914 Gwynedd n/a 80,160 Mid Glamorgan n/a 134,775 Powys n/a 57,412
£000 Authority Usable receipts from the sale of council houses available at 31 March 1995 Outstanding loan debt as at 31 March 1995 South Glamorgan n/a 171,374 West Glamorgan n/a 170,118 Dyfed /Powys Police Authority n/a 4,377 Gwent Police Authority n/a 4,050 North Wales Police Authority n/a 3,179 South Wales Police Authority n/a 11,306 Total Districts 44,350 1,901,954 Total Counties n/a 1,050,298 Total Police Authorities n/a 22,912 Total Wales 44,350 2,975,164 Source:
Local authority returns.
Failure to use sale proceeds to redeem existing debt would have resulted in correspondingly higher outstanding loan debt and correspondingly increased interest charges paid by council taxpayers in Wales.