asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will break down the latest homelessness figures in each district into those who were priority cases under the Homeless Persons Act 1977 and those who were not.
The information is given in the following table.
Number of households accepted as homeless January-June 1981 | ||
Priority cases | Other cases | |
Alyn and Deeside | 40 | 2 |
Colwyn | 5 | 0 |
Delyn | 24 | 1 |
Glyndwr | 6 | 1 |
Rhuddlan | 25 | 1 |
Wrexham Maelor | 63 | 6 |
Carmarthen | 32 | 5 |
Ceredigion | 11 | 0 |
Dinefwr | 5 | 0 |
Llanelli | 24 | 3 |
Preseli | 26 | 1 |
South Pembrokeshire | 31 | 2 |
Priority cases
| Other cases
| |
Blaenau Gwent | 68 | 5 |
Islwyn | 26 | 3 |
Monmouth | 77 | 19 |
Newport | 267 | 7 |
Torfaen | 102 | 41 |
Aberconwy | 29 | 0 |
Arfon | 8 | 0 |
Dwyfor | 17 | 0 |
Meirionnydd | 40 | 18 |
Ynys Mon | 5 | 2 |
Cynon Valley | 126 | 17 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 46 | 19 |
Ogwr | 40 | 2 |
Rhondda | 121 | 31 |
Rhymney Valley | 72 | 0 |
Taff-Ely | 35 | 2 |
Brecknock | 7 | 4 |
Montgomery | 13 | 3 |
Radnor | 6 | 0 |
Cardiff | 182 | 23 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 72 | 6 |
Afan | 12 | 0 |
Lliw Valley | 18 | 0 |
Neath | 119 | 29 |
Swansea | 594 | 183 |
WALES | 2,394 | 436 |
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will review the way in which he compiles annual statistics for homelessness.
The methods by which statistics are collected and complied by the Welsh Office are under continuous review, but it is never easy to reconcile the demands for more detailed information on the one hand with the necessity to reduce the burden of form-filling on the other.