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Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the outstanding (a) total and (b) per capita level of loan debt of Swansea City Council at 31 March 1997. [67285]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones
The table in the official record of the answer I gave on this matter on 19 November 1998, Official Report, columns 806–07, excluded the information for Swansea. The complete table including Swansea is as follows:
| Outstanding loan debt as at 31 March 19971 | ||
| £000 | £per head | |
| Blaenau Gwent | 62,544 | 857 |
| Bridgend | 90,155 | 690 |
| Caerphilly | 94,757 | 560 |
| Cardiff | 210,456 | 668 |
| Carmarthenshire | 114,822 | 679 |
| Ceredigion | 44,380 | 638 |
| Conwy | 75,111 | 679 |
| Denbighshire | 69,231 | 766 |
| Flintshire | 102,728 | 709 |
| Gwynedd | 86,287 | 733 |
| Isle of Anglesey | 55,723 | 831 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 41,480 | 714 |
| Monmouthshire | 44,522 | 513 |
| Neath Port Talbot | 108,393 | 777 |
| Newport | 114,482 | 837 |
| Pembrokeshire | 85,934 | 756 |
| Powys | 101,715 | 818 |
| Rhondda, Cynon, Taff | 139,068 | 579 |
| Swansea | 196,049 | 852 |
| Torfaen | 76,066 | 841 |
| The Vale of Glamorgan | 78,033 | 657 |
| Wrexham | 83,316 | 666 |
| Wales | 2,075,253 | 710 |
| 1 Outstanding loan debt on council fund. Includes amounts of debt inherited from predecessor authorities for which the authority has agreed to pay financing costs. | ||
Source:
Outstanding loan debt as set out in The Local Government Finance Report (Wales) 1998–99 (Revised)