To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table indicating for each of Delyn, Dinefwr, Dwyfor, Islwyn, Neath and Llanelli district authorities in Wales (a) their position on the 1991 revised index of the Welsh deprivation table, (b) the total urban aid granted to each of the authorities over the past three years and (c) the urban aid per capita this represents in each instance; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 18 February 1992]: The following table sets out details of urban programme allocations for each of the three years 1990–91 to 1992–93 for the district councils in Delyn, Dinefwr, Dwyfor, Islwyn, Neath and Llanelli. The total urban programme allocation per capita for each of the local authorities is also shown.Urban programme allocations to local authorities in Wales are now being targeted at strategy-based projects and projects within the most deprived wards. Nevertheless, traditional factors, such as quality of bids submitted by local authorities and competition for finite resources, remain important elements in determining which projects are approved.