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Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency
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Covers parts of 2 councils

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe is not a single council area. The share is the proportion of its residents (Census 2021 population, allocated by postcode) who live in each council area.

Powys75%
Neath Port Talbot25%

Council-level figures on these pages (anything the Office for National Statistics or the councils publish only for a council area) are labelled with the council they describe, and the other councils' values are listed beside them. A council figure is never the figure for the whole constituency.

People

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92,503

Resident population · 2024

0.4%

Population change · 2022 to 2024

1.3 percentage points lower than Wales

Wales 1.7%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Resident population Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2024	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	estimated, medium quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%) Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2022-2024	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	estimated, medium quality

Method: Mid-year population estimates

ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Homes

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£240,000

Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025

12% higher than Wales

Wales £215,000

4.4%

Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier

2 percentage points higher than Wales

Wales 2.4%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Median sale price Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	aggregated, high quality
Change in median sale price over a year Percentage change in the median between consecutive 12-month windows. Not mix-adjusted.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	aggregated, high quality

Method: Price paid medians

Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Education

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31.9%

Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021

Powys council area figure, covering 75% of this constituency

About the same as Wales

Wales 31.5%

18.9%

Adults with no qualifications · 2021

Powys council area figure, covering 75% of this constituency

1 percentage points lower than Wales

Wales 19.9%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above Share of usual residents aged 16 and over whose highest qualification is Level 4 (degree level) or above (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Powys (Council area)	direct, high quality Same figure for the other councils it covers: Neath Port Talbot (25%) 25.8%.
Adults with no qualifications Share of usual residents aged 16 and over with no qualifications (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Powys (Council area)	direct, high quality Same figure for the other councils it covers: Neath Port Talbot (25%) 23.7%.

Method: Census 2021 housing, health and qualifications for Wales

Wales held its census on the same day as England (21 March 2021) with the same questions, so the figures are directly comparable. For Wales we use the published local authority tables. Tenure counts shared ownership with owners; "private rented" includes people who live rent free, as in the England figures. Overcrowding is an occupancy rating of -1 or less for bedrooms. Qualifications are for people aged 16 and over; "no qualifications" and "Level 4 or above" (degree level and above) are shares of all those people. Counts are rounded by random adjustment, so tiny differences from other tables are expected. Wales households per local authority are not split to small areas here.

Economy

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4,003

Companies registered in the area · 2 Oct 2026

43.3 per 1,000

Registered companies per 1,000 residents · 2 Oct 2026

22% lower than Wales

Wales 55.2 per 1,000

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Companies registered in the area (registered offices) Active companies whose registered office postcode is in the area. Registered office, not operating location.	Companies House Free Company Data Product (basic company data), snapshot Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)	2 Oct 2026	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	aggregated, medium quality By registered office address. Counts companies by their registered office address, not where they trade. Accountants and formation agents can register thousands of companies at one address, which inflates some areas.
Registered companies per 1,000 residents Active companies with a registered office in the area per 1,000 residents (mid-2024). Registered offices only.	Companies House Free Company Data Product (basic company data), snapshot Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)	2 Oct 2026	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	aggregated, low quality By registered office address. Counts companies by their registered office address, not where they trade. Accountants and formation agents can register thousands of companies at one address, which inflates some areas.

Method: Registered companies by area

Companies are placed by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not a trading or operating location: accountants, formation agents and virtual offices register thousands of companies at one address, and many small companies use a director's home. Counts are of companies with status Active (including those with a proposal to strike off), by the section of their first listed SIC 2007 code. Incorporation counts cover companies incorporated in the window that are still on the register at 2 Oct 2026, so dissolved companies are missing and older windows are understated relative to newer ones. Companies per 1,000 residents divides by the mid-2024 resident population (England and Wales only) and is not a measure of business density where registration hubs exist. SIC section Z groups dormant, non-trading and unclassified companies.

Community

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62.3 per 1,000

Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026

8% lower than Wales

Wales 67.6 per 1,000

499

Charities registered here · Oct 2026

More than Wales here 5.4 per 1,000

Wales 2.5 per 1,000

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Recorded crime (excluding anti-social behaviour) per 1,000 residents police.uk crime categories except anti-social behaviour, 12 months, per 1,000 residents.	Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk Street-level crime (12 monthly files) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	Year to Apr 2026	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	estimated, medium quality 12 months to April 2026. 3.6% of Dyfed-Powys Police records have no location and are excluded.
Charities based in the area Registered charities whose registered address is in the area.	Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)	Oct 2026	Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (Constituency)	aggregated, low quality By registered address. Counts charities by their registered contact address (often a trustee or a head office), not where they work. England and Wales register only. Compared through charities based per 1,000 residents (Oct 2026): Wales 2.5 per 1,000, here 5.4 per 1,000.

Method: Recorded street crime per 1,000 residents

Counts of crimes in police.uk street-level data for May 2025 to April 2026, matched to 2021 LSOAs by the LSOA code on each record, then split to output areas by population and rolled up (see the area apportioning method). Rates are crimes per 1,000 residents (mid-2024 population) and describe where crimes were recorded, not who committed them or where victims live. High rates occur where many non-residents pass through (town centres, transport hubs, nightlife), so they are not a measure of risk to residents. Crimes with no location (blank LSOA) are excluded; the excluded share by force is in the notes. Greater Manchester Police data are absent from the extract, so those areas have no value. Categories follow police.uk. Anti-social behaviour is incident data, not crime proper, and is included only in the "all categories" rate. 12 months only: no trend is possible and seasonal effects are included.

Method: Charities in an area

A charity is placed by the postcode of its registered/contact address (or the nearest postcode to its geocoded address; some are placed by the nearest postcode to a geocoded address), so counts show where charities are based, not where they work: a national charity with a London address is counted in London. Income is the latest annual income on the register, summed; it is dominated by a few very large charities. "Declaring the area" counts charities that name the local authority (or its county) as an area of operation on the register; it does not mean services are delivered everywhere in that area. Registered charities only; unregistered community groups, small charities below the registration threshold and removed charities are not counted.

The future

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60.4%17.9%20.5%

A small part 60.4%
Some 17.9%
Much 20.5%
Not yet assessed 1.2%

CareerMash staging data (11 Oct 2026), approved by the owner for this preview, subject to change; not yet independently validated

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Educationmedium confidence

Lower than Wales: Pupils eligible for free school meals (Wales) (Powys figure)

Pupils eligible for free school meals (Wales) is 11.9% in Powys council area (2025/26), compared with 20.5% in Wales (8.5 percentage points lower; n = 13,822).

Powys figure

11.9% Powys figure20.5% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Welsh Government: Schools census: pupils in maintained schools aged 5 to 15 eligible for free school meals, by local authority (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2025/26

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

School summaries for Wales and Scotland. Wales and Scotland do not publish the same measures as England, and none are comparable with England's Ofsted, Key Stage 2 or GCSE Attainment 8 figures. For Wales we hold the January pupil census: pupils aged 5 to 15 in maintained schools and the share eligible for free school meals (eligibility rules changed with universal primary meals and transitional protection, so compare years with care). For Scotland we hold school-leaver attainment (share of leavers with five or more awards at SCQF level 5 or level 6) and the share in a positive initial destination, by the council area of the school. These describe the pupils and leavers of schools in the area, not its residents. Percentages for small councils rest on small numbers of leavers.

Limitations

Excludes pupils who are only transitionally protected.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe covers parts of 2 council areas (Powys 75%, Neath Port Talbot 25%); the figure shown is for Powys only, not for the whole constituency.
This figure is for the Powys council area, not for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe itself.

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Homesmedium confidence

Wide range between wards in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: Typical (median) home sale price

Typical (median) home sale price (Year to Oct 2024) varies within Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: from £120,000 in Cwmllynfell and Ystalyfera to £420,000 in Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower, across 14 wards. The upper tenth of wards is about 1.9 times the lower tenth.

Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower figure

£420,000 Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower£120,000 Cwmllynfell and Ystalyfera

How do we know this?

Source

HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) (Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright))

Period

Year to Oct 2024

Geography

Ward, compared with lowest-value ward (Cwmllynfell and Ystalyfera)

Method

Price paid medians. Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Limitations

Ward and neighbourhood boundaries differ in size; the range shows variation within the area, not a ranking of places.

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Economymedium confidence

Higher than Wales: Business enterprises per 1,000 residents (Powys figure)

Business enterprises per 1,000 residents is 65.0 per 1,000 in Powys council area (2026), compared with 33.3 per 1,000 in Wales (about 2.0 times the Wales rate; n = 135,059).

Powys figure

65 per 1,000 Powys figure33.3 per 1,000 Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: UK Business Counts (Inter-Departmental Business Register), enterprises and local units, via Nomis (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2026

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Business counts. UK Business Counts count businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE on the ONS Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) at a March snapshot. An enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units with a degree of autonomy; a local unit is a single site of an enterprise, counted where the site is. Businesses below the VAT threshold and not running PAYE (many sole traders) are not included, so counts understate the smallest businesses. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5. Enterprises are placed in an area by where their head office or main site is registered with HMRC, which for multi-site firms may not be where staff work: local units are the better guide to where businesses operate. Size bands are by employment (employees plus working proprietors). Industry is the SIC 2007 section of the main activity.

Limitations

Residents are the mid-2024 estimate.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe covers parts of 2 council areas (Powys 75%, Neath Port Talbot 25%); the figure shown is for Powys only, not for the whole constituency.
This figure is for the Powys council area, not for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe itself.

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Homesmedium confidence

Higher than Wales: Change in private rents over a year (Powys figure)

Change in private rents over a year is 9.1% in Powys council area (Aug 2026), compared with 4.3% in Wales (4.8 percentage points higher).

Powys figure

9.1% Powys figure4.3% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

Aug 2026

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Private rents (PIPR). The ONS Price Index of Private Rents measures the change in rents paid by private tenants, and publishes an average (mean) monthly rent per local authority from the same data. The figure is a mean, not a median, so a few very high rents pull it up, especially in London and where there are few lettings. It covers rents paid for homes let on the private market (not social rents) and reflects all tenancies in the stock, not only new lets, except in Scotland where the underlying data are mainly advertised new lets, which makes Scotland not directly comparable with England and Wales. Annual change is the change in the rental price index, not in the cash average. Rents are in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation. Averages by number of bedrooms are held for the latest month only.

Limitations

Change in the rental price index.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe covers parts of 2 council areas (Powys 75%, Neath Port Talbot 25%); the figure shown is for Powys only, not for the whole constituency.
This figure is for the Powys council area, not for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe itself.

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Economymedium confidence

Increase between Year to 4 Nov 2025 and Year to 4 Nov 2026: Companies dissolved in the last 12 months

Companies dissolved in the last 12 months in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe went from 343 (Year to 4 Nov 2025) to 438 (Year to 4 Nov 2026): up 27.7%, compared with down 31.7% in Wales.

438 here343 same place, Year to 4 Nov 2025

How do we know this?

Source

Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026 (to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0))

Period

Year to 4 Nov 2026

Geography

Constituency, compared with same place, Year to 4 Nov 2025

Method

Company dissolutions and net formation. Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.

Limitations

Registered offices are not operating locations; many companies are registered at an agent or accountant address.
Registered-office events are not new local employers, closures or job changes.
Registered office at dissolution.

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The futurehigh confidence

Residents retired

29.5% of residents aged 16+ in Powys (one of the council areas Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe covers parts of: Powys 75%, Neath Port Talbot 25%) were retired on Census day, higher than the 21.6% for England and Wales (Census 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic).

29.5% here21.6% England and Wales

How do we know this?

Source

not recorded

Period

Census 2021 (21 March 2021)

Geography

Constituency, compared with England and Wales

Method

Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.

Limitations

Census day was 21 March 2021, during the pandemic and furlough.
Shown separately from other measures; no composite.

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What's changing in Powys and Neath Port Talbot (the council areas it covers)

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The constituency itself has no dated records, so these are from the council areas it covers parts of (Powys and Neath Port Talbot), not from the constituency alone. They are events, not judgements.

No records for this constituency: council areas shown

4 Nov 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Aqsaa Food LimitedRegistered office in Powys, which is not necessarily where it operates
3 Nov 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: At Home Meds Limited (dissolved 2026)Registered office in Neath Port Talbot, which is not necessarily where it operates
3 Nov 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: Everline Solutions Ltd (dissolved 2026)Registered office in Neath Port Talbot, which is not necessarily where it operates
3 Nov 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: Vaultkeep Ltd (dissolved 2026)Registered office in Neath Port Talbot, which is not necessarily where it operates

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Sources used on this page

Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland: Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes)Period: CCEW extract 4 Oct 2026; OSCR 7 Oct 2026 · Published: 4 Oct 2026 · Coverage: United Kingdom (registered charities) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk: Street-level crime (12 monthly files)Period: May 2025 to Apr 2026 · Published: Jun 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales except Greater Manchester Police (no data in the loaded files); Northern Ireland records have no LSOA · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Companies House: Free Company Data Product (basic company data), snapshotPeriod: snapshot 2 Oct 2026 · Published: 2 Oct 2026 · Coverage: UK companies on the register (registered office postcode) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)
HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)Period: sales to 31 Mar 2026 · Published: Apr 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Office for National Statistics: Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)Period: mid-2022 (revised), mid-2023, mid-2024 · Published: 7 Nov 2025 · Coverage: England and Wales (LSOA 2021) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: UK Business Counts (Inter-Departmental Business Register), enterprises and local units, via NomisPeriod: snapshot taken in March 2026 (counts held for 2016 to 2026) · Published: Oct 2026 · Coverage: Great Britain: local authorities, parliamentary constituencies (2024), MSOAs (England and Wales), regions, countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Welsh Government: Schools census: pupils in maintained schools aged 5 to 15 eligible for free school meals, by local authorityPeriod: academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 (January pupil census) · Published: 5 Aug 2026 · Coverage: Wales: 22 local authorities and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statisticsPeriod: monthly, January 2015 to the latest month in the release; 36 months held · Published: 16 Sep 2026 · Coverage: UK local authorities (England, Wales, Scotland), English regions and countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualificationPeriod: 21 March 2021 · Published: 2023 · Coverage: Local authorities of Wales (22) and Wales; qualifications also for England and its local authorities · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Companies House: Companies House streaming API (live), combined with the basic company data snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: incorporations to 4 Nov 2026 (stream timepoint 121313916, newest event published 5 Nov 2026T04:15:18) · Published: 5 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)
Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: dissolutions 5 Nov 2024 to 4 Nov 2026; annual series 2010 to 2025 · Published: 5 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)

Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.