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Welsh Office

Answer

Mr. Livsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money was allocated in the 1998-99 standard spending assessment to each local authority in Wales to repay capital debt. [62652] Mr. Jon Owen Jones: There are no separately identifiable allocations within standard spending assessments for repayment of debt. The amounts in respect of overall capital charges included in the 1998-99 standard spending assessments are given in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Isle of Anglesey 6,772 Gwynedd 10,608 Conwy 8,659 Denbighshire 9,015 Flintshire 12,691 Wrexham 9,739 Powys 12,603 Ceredigion 5,696 Pembrokeshire 10,800 Carmarthenshire 14,353 Swansea 22,312 Neath Port Talbot 12,529 Bridgend 10,882 The Vale of Glamorgan 9,011 Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 17,065 Merthyr Tydfil 5,019 Caerphilly 12,061 Blaenau Gwent 7,606 Torfaen 8,982 Monmouthshire 5,469 Newport 13,204 Cardiff 24,236 Dyfed-Powys Police 649 Gwent Police 821 North Wales Police 678 South Wales Police 2,412 Total Unitary Authorities 249,311 Total Police Authorities 4,560 Total Wales 253,871 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Capital charges cover repayment of debt, interest payments on outstanding debt, non-operational leasing charges, and for the police authorities capital expenditure charged to the revenue account. The figures are net of capital financing grants.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

62652; 322 c230-1W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Debts Borrowing Local government finance Wales Standard spending assessments

Contains statistics

Yes