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Cottage Hospitals

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the cottage hospitals which have been closed in Wales since 1979; and if he will make a statement. [39091]

Mr. Hague: Hospitals which have been closed since 1979 and were not district general or psychiatric hospitals are given in the following list. The list excludes St. Lawrence hospital, Chepstow and Talgarn miners rehabilitation hospital which were not classed as cottage hospitals. During the same period six cottage hospitals have opened.

The NHS in Wales is treating more patients than ever. Since 1979 the number of in-patients and day cases admitted to hospitals has nearly doubled and the number of new out-patients seen has increased by about 50 per cent.

Adelina Patti
Allt-yr-yn
Blackmill
Bridgend and District
Caernarfon Cottage
Catherine Gladstone
Chatsworth House
Cefn Hirgoed
Cefn Mably
Children's ENT, Cardiff
Cilymaenllwyd
Colwyn Bat Maternity
Cwmdonkin
Druid
Energlyn
Fedw Hir
Galltysil

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Glan Ely
Glyncornel
Gors Maternity
Groesynyd
LLangwyfan
Llwynderw
Madoc Memorial
Merthyr General
Mount Pleasant, West Glamorgan
Neale Kent
Neath Annexe
Pentwyn Cottage
Pontypool and District
Pontypridd Cottage
Port Talbot ¹
Prince Edward's War Memorial
Rhiwfelin
Snatchwood
St. David's, Brecon
St. David's Cardiff
St. David's, Gwynedd
Stanley Sailors
Tyntyla
¹ As no in-patients are treated the building is no longer classed as a hospital.

Crime Prevention

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the expenditure by his Department on crime prevention, in each of the last five years for which the figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [39077]

Mr. Hague: My Department has no formal policy responsibility for crime prevention, although some expenditure within Welsh Office programmes is for crime prevention activity.

Identifiable Welsh Office expenditure on crime prevention in each of the last three years is listed as follows:

1994-95: £1,083,000
1995-96: £1,729,000
1996-97: £1,832,000

Comparable figures are not available for previous years.

Other schemes funded by the Welsh Office also include elements of crime prevention, but it is impossible to quantify the amounts specific to it.

Welsh Language

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many Welsh language schemes as set out in the Welsh Language Act 1994 have been (a) submitted to and (b) approved by the Welsh Office; and if he will make a statement. [39081]

Mr. Hague: This is an operational matter for the Welsh Language Board, established by the Welsh Language Act 1993, the responsibilities of which include the receipt and

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approval of schemes. I have asked the chief executive to write directly to the hon. Member and will place a copy of his letter in the Library of the House.

Education Authority Grants

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the Welsh Office grant for each education authority in Wales in each year since 1990; and if he will make a statement. [39083]

Mr. Hague: Support for local government spending through revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates is not hypothecated to specific services. Allocations of education related specific grants paid to local authorities are shown in the following table: Details of grant allocations to unitary authorities for 1996-97 are not available.

Specific and supplementary grants relating to education(27)£ Million

	1990-91	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96
Clwyd	15.1	21.9	25.5	25.9	22.0	20.1
Dyfed	15.7	21.6	25.8	26.1	22.9	21.5
Gwent	16.3	23.5	28.6	28.5	23.8	23.4
Gwynedd	11.0	15.8	17.1	17.6	15.3	14.3
Mid Glamorgan	15.9	24.2	27.5	28.9	17.8	22.5
Powys	4.5	6.7	8.0	7.8	6.7	6.1
South Glamorgan	16.0	23.1	28.2	28.9	24.6	20.9
West Glamorgan	14.9	20.7	23.5	23.2	20.0	18.0

(27) Includes grants for Education Support and Training (GEST), Welsh language education, education of children of travellers and displaced persons, mandatory student awards, training agency (TVEI) and Work Related Further Education (WRFE).

Forestry

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many hectares of forest have been cut down and built on since 1979; what percentage of the total area of forest in Wales this represents; and if he will make a statement. [39087]

Mr. Hague: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Housing

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many housing association houses were built in each Welsh local authority in the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [39093]

Mr. Hague: The information requested is given in the following table. The numbers shown are based on local authority returns which may underestimate the level of activity.

New housing association dwellings completed, by district 1993 to 1995

District	1993	1994	1995
Aberconwy	82	72	87
Alyn and Deeside	50	23	107
Arfon	74	70	29
Blaenau Gwent	0	3	71
Brecknock	21	71	54
Cardiff	420	385	356
Carmarthen	45	24	23
Ceredigion	0	12	32
Colwyn	12	36	52
Cynon Valley	66	36	50
Delyn	131	46	49
Dinefwr	107	7	16
Dwyfor	49	17	4
Glyndwr	22	25	0
Islwyn	54	0	9
Llanelli	0	6	27
Lliw Valley	0	71	27
Meirionnydd	27	32	51
Merthyr Tydfil	30	51	51
Monmouth	124	39	89
Montgomeryshire	130	203	56
Neath	43	60	69
Newport	67	10	49
Ogwr	268	234	55
Port Talbot	22	72	11
Preseli Pembrokeshire	66	72	73
Radnorshire	63	38	50
Rhondda	58	79	40
Rhuddlan	24	108	30
Rhymney Valley	87	38	69
South Pembrokeshire	22	95	39
Swansea	347	369	356
Taff Ely	31	82	67
Torfaen	222	105	79
Vale of Glamorgan	32	41	0
Wrexham Maelor	56	200	17
Ynys Mon	1	0	14
Wales	2,721	2,746	2,064

Source:

Local authority and NHBC returns.

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Mr. Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the numbers of council houses (a) newly built and (b) restored to use in each local authority in Wales in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [39102]

Mr. Hague: The number of council houses completed in the last five years is given in the following table. Information on the number of council houses restored to use is not collected centrally.

New local authority dwellings completed, by district

District	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Aberconwy	0	0	0	20	0
Alyn and Deeside	67	22	0	16	0
Arfon	1	20	0	0	0
Blaenau Gwent	2	0	0	0	26
Brecknock	0	0	0	0	0
Cardiff	35	6	0	0	1
Carmarthen	0	0	0	0	0
Ceredigion	37	0	0	0	0
Colwyn	0	0	0	0	0
Cynon Valley	0	0	0	0	0
Delyn	0	0	0	0	0
Dinefwr	0	0	6	0	0
Dwyfor	8	0	3	0	0
Glyndwr	0	0	0	0	0
Islwyn	0	0	0	0	0
Llanelli	98	0	31	45	78
Lliw Valley	0	0	5	0	29
Meirionnydd	12	0	0	0	0
Merthyr Tydfil	0	0	0	0	0
Monmouth	0	0	0	0	0
Montgomeryshire	31	0	0	0	0
Neath	33	0	0	0	0
Newport	0	0	6	108	4
Ogwr	0	13	0	0	0
Port Talbot	0	0	0	0	0
Preseli Pembrokeshire	18	8	14	12	0
Radnorshire	0	28	0	6	0
Rhondda	0	0	0	0	0
Rhuddlan	26	20	25	0	6
Rhymney Valley	0	0	0	0	0
South Pembrokeshire	0	0	0	0	6
Swansea	0	0	58	20	6
Taff Ely	0	0	0	0	0
Torfaen	0	0	0	0	10
Vale of Glamorgan	29	16	24	0	0
Wrexham Maelor	21	0	0	0	0
Ynys Mon	0	0	0	0	0
Wales	418	133	172	227	176

Source:

Local authority and NHBC returns.

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Civil Servants

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total number of civil servants employed by his Department (a) broken down by category and (b) in total, in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [39119]

Mr. Hague: I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible and place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.

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