asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what compares with (a) the bids made by those authorities and (b) the allocation for 1979–80 in actual and real terms, taking into account inflation.

Details of the mid-Glamorgan local authorities' housing allocations for 1980–81 together with a comparison with their orginal 1979–80 allocation in both actual and real terms are as follows:—grammes for individual local housing authorities in Wales.

The factors and criteria used for individual local authorities' housing investment programmes are matters for the local authority to determine.