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Mr. Barry Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many homeless households there are in bed-and-breakfast accommodation and in other temporary accommodation in Wales in each of the boroughs and districts; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist
The figures are as follows:
Numbers of households in temporary accommodation on 31 December 1989 | ||
At end of quarter | ||
Total | Bed and breakfast | |
Aberconwy | 0 | 0 |
Alyn and Deeside | 28 | 1 |
Arfon | 3 | 0 |
Blaenau Gwent | 12 | 0 |
Brecknock | 7 | 0 |
Cardiff | 179 | 110 |
Carmarthen | 16 | 0 |
Ceredigion | 3 | 2 |
Colwyn | 5 | 0 |
Cynon Valley | 8 | 0 |
Delyn | 18 | 4 |
Dinefwr | 4 | 4 |
Dwyfor | 2 | 1 |
Glyndwr | 1 | 0 |
Islwyn | 14 | 1 |
Llanelli | 25 | 17 |
Lliw Valley | 30 | 0 |
Meirionnydd | 7 | 0 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 2 | 0 |
Monmouth | 36 | 2 |
Montgomery | 8 | 0 |
Neath | 20 | 7 |
Newport | 141 | 1 |
Ogwy | 8 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 27 | 2 |
Preseli Pembrokeshire | 12 | 4 |
Radnor | 1 | 0 |
Rhondda | 0 | 0 |
Rhuddlan | 3 | 0 |
Rhymney Valley | 17 | 13 |
South Pembrokeshire | 10 | 0 |
Swansea | 24 | 2 |
Taff Ely | 5 | 1 |
Torfaen | 18 | 0 |
Vale of Glamorgan | 133 | 0 |
Wrexham Maelor | 5 | 1 |
Ynys Mon | 0 | 0 |
Wales | 832 | 173 |
Mr. Barry Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people are homeless in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist
In the period October to December 1989, 1,618 households were accepted as homeless by local authorities in Wales. I announced a package of measures to tackle homelessness in Wales on 11 December.