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Mr. Barry Jones
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the percentage of households with at least one lone parent family with dependent children as a percentage of all households with dependent children for (i) each Welsh county, and (ii) Wales.
Mr. Mark Robinson
The most recent information at a county level is that collected at the 1981 census and is as follows:
| Percentage of households with dependent children* containing at least 1 one-parent family with dependent children | |
| percentage | |
| Clwyd | 12·1 |
| Dyfed | 12·2 |
| Gwent | 13·1 |
| Gwynedd | 13·3 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 13·3 |
| Powys | 11·0 |
| South Glamorgan | 15·6 |
| West Glamorgan | 12·7 |
| WALES | 13·1 |
| * Includes all persons under 16 and those under 25 who are never married and classified as a student at the census. | |