§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many families have insufficient individual beds to meet the normal needs of their household. [6056]
§ Mr. Jonathan EvansThe bedroom standard—defined in the following table—is recognised as a measure of overcrowding. The results from the Welsh social survey 1992 indicated that 2,100 households had two or more bedrooms fewer than the standard requires and that 18,300 households had one bedroom less.
Bedroom standard definition(extract taken from 1993 Welsh House Condition Survey, Chapter (11)The standard number of bedrooms is:
- (a) one for each cohabiting couple
- (b) one for each other man or woman aged 21 or over
- (c) one for each two persons of the same sex aged 10–20
- (d) one for any person aged 10–20 and a child under 10 of the same sex
- (e) one for any person aged 10–20 not paired as in (c) or (d)
- (f) one for each two of any remaining children under 10
- (g) one for any child remaining