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Homelessness

Volume 183: debated on Wednesday 19 December 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the numbers of those legally defined as homeless for each district council in Wales; and if he will estimate the proportion of each who do not have a roof over their heads.

Data for the third quarter of 1990 on the number of cases accepted as homeless, or threatened with homelessness within 28 days, as described in part 3, section 58 of the Housing Act 1985, are given in the following table. The proportion of these cases who do not have a roof over their head is nil.

Cases accepted as homeless
Welsh districtsCases
Aberconwy9
Alyn and Deeside51
Arfon10
Blaenau Gwent98
Brecknock24
Cardiff281
Carmarthen18
Ceredigion37
Colwyn15
Cynon Valley67
Delyn67
Dinefwr15
Dwyfor13
Glyndwr3
Islwyn39
Llanelli30
Lliw Valley21
Meirionnydd24
Merthyr Tydfil55
Monmouth26
Montgomeryshire29
Neath81
Newport285
Ogwr183
Port Talbot25
Preseli Pembrokeshire17

Welsh districts

Cases

Radnorshire9
Rhondda21
Rhuddlan25
Rhymney Valley41
South Pembrokeshire25
Swansea54
Taff-Ely52
Torfaen143
Vale of Glamorgan115
Wrexham Maelor137
Ynys Mon14
Wales total2,159