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Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many homeless people there were in Wales by district council area in the years, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett
[holding answer 24 February 1992]: This information is given in the table.
| Number of persons in households accepted as homeless under Part III of the Housing Act 1985, by district | |||||
| 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | |
| Aberconwy | 177 | 108 | 162 | 137 | 104 |
| Alyn and Deeside | 330 | 485 | 528 | 474 | 499 |
| Arfon | 102 | 63 | 65 | 77 | 93 |
| Blaenau Gwent | 463 | 595 | 695 | 841 | 761 |
| Brecknock | 180 | 176 | 243 | 269 | 318 |
| Cardiff | 1,592 | 2,971 | 3,334 | 2,483 | 4,052 |
| Carmarthen | 255 | 213 | 164 | 189 | 227 |
| Ceredigion | 188 | 187 | 180 | 331 | 373 |
| Colwyn | 104 | 87 | 93 | 1103 | 178 |
| Cynon Valley | 603 | 710 | 530 | 623 | 1,017 |
| Delyn | 712 | 679 | 1,002 | 825 | 683 |
| Dinefwr | 141 | 185 | 124 | 181 | 410 |
| Dwyfor | 163 | 119 | 178 | 162 | 127 |
| Glyndwr | 63 | 30 | 43 | 46 | 87 |
| Islwyn | 121 | 204 | 313 | 370 | 399 |
| Llanelli | 408 | 302 | 343 | 297 | 383 |
| Lliw Valley | 254 | 143 | 288 | 338 | 284 |
| Meirionnydd | 137 | 210 | 230 | 250 | 257 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 207 | 191 | 359 | 496 | 365 |
| Monmouth | 618 | 576 | 357 | 281 | 388 |
| Montgomeryshire | 100 | 156 | 127 | 188 | 259 |
| Neath | 629 | 636 | 496 | 610 | 656 |
| Newport | 1,550 | 1,635 | 2,460 | 2,696 | 2,936 |
| Ogwr | 994 | 1,193 | 1,176 | 1,332 | 1,671 |
| Port Talbot | 357 | 327 | 442 | 303 | 340 |
| Preseli | 176 | 194 | 153 | 209 | 255 |
| Radnorshire | 31 | 60 | 36 | 64 | 45 |
| Rhondda | 268 | 270 | 292 | 166 | 358 |
| Rhuddlan | 296 | 256 | 273 | 293 | 177 |
| Rhymney Valley | 410 | 580 | 655 | 439 | 2395 |
| South Pembrokeshire | 210 | 271 | 241 | 248 | 205 |
| Swansea3 | 654 | 439 | 345 | 450 | 1,779 |
| Taff-Ely | 321 | 395 | 442 | 568 | 715 |
| Torfaen | 708 | 881 | 968 | 1,216 | 1.038 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 293 | 755 | 1,042 | 1,160 | 1,184 |
1987
| 1988
| 1989
| 1990
| 1991
| |
| Wrexham Maelor | 522 | 717 | 740 | 863 | 730 |
| Ynys Mon | 65 | 106 | 49 | 97 | 111 |
1 Excludes those persons in the 2,000 estimated households made homeless as a result of the major flooding incident in February 1990. | |||||
2 Information for 1991 is provisional. | |||||
3 It is known that the figure for Swansea prior to 1991 was was under-recorded by the authority. | |||||
Source: Welsh Office local authority returns.