To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West on 26 February, Official Report, column 526, if he will institute an independent evaluation study of the costs and benefits of Heartbeat Wales.
| Long term unemployed1 | ||||
| July 1983 | January 1992 | Change | ||
| Total | Total | Total | Percentage | |
| Clwyd | 8,970 | 3,403 | -5,567 | -62·1 |
| Dyfedd | 5,576 | 3,361 | -2,215 | -39·7 |
| Gwent | 11,378 | 6,144 | -5,234 | -46·0 |
| Gwynedd | 4,109 | 3,237 | -872 | -21·2 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 13,494 | 8,423 | -5,071 | -37·6 |
| Powys | 1,262 | 648 | -614 | -48·7 |
| South Glamorgan | 9,000 | 6,138 | -2,862 | -31·8 |
| West Glamorgan | 9,538 | 4,546 | -4,992 | -52·3 |
| 1 Unadjusted. | ||||
The Health Promotion Authority for Wales has published its Heartbeat Wales evaluation strategy entitled "The Welsh Heart Programme Evaluation Strategy: progress, plans and possibilities", which has been subject to a scientific peer review. HPAW, in developing its strategy, has sought the advice of a wide range of external consultants. The evaluation was reviewed during 1989 by two international experts in the field of community programme evaluation, Professor Murray (University of Minnesota) and Professor Bosse Haglund (programme director of the Stockholm cancer prevention project), both of whom continue to give advice. In addition the Health Promotion Authority for Wales has an evaluation advisory group comprising United Kingdom-based experts.