asked the Secretary of State for Wales what provision has been made, within the current year's rate support grant to the Welsh counties, specifically to meet
| Number of pupils aged 10 and over in maintained primary schools | ||||||||
| Clwyd | Dyfed | Gwent | Gwynedd | Mid Glamorgan | Powys | South Glamorgan | West Glamorgan | |
| 1977: | ||||||||
| Category A1 | 364 | 1,160 | 7 | 1,579 | 52 | 102 | 54 | 182 |
| Category B2 | 349 | 476 | 19 | 576 | 355 | 100 | 64 | 151 |
| Category C3 | 5,407 | 3,142 | 7,321 | 1,154 | 8,541 | 1,393 | 5,864 | 5,309 |
expenditure on bilingual education; what are the corresponding figures for each financial year since 1976–77; and what are the projected figures for 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1989–90.
Central Government support towards billingual education comes from two main sources. Specific grant supports expenditure on certain local authority schemes approved by the Secretary of State. Any further spending by local authorities on bilingual education is eligible for rate support grant but information on expenditure supported in this way is not held centrally.Since 1981–82 the level of specific grant estimated in the main Rate Support Grant reports has been as follows:
| £000 | |
| 1981–82 | 729 |
| 1982–83 | 566 |
| 1983–84 | 600 |
| 1984–85 | 622 |
| 1985–86 | 950 |
| 1986–87 | 1,000 |