Scottish Tourist Board

HC Deb 22 May 1968 vol 765 cc529-30

31. Mr. MacArthur

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met officials of the Scottish Tourist Board.

Mr. Ross

In June, 1967. My hon. Friend the Minister of State met the Board's Director, with one of its members, in February of this year.

Mr. MacArthur

Will the Secretary of State not take some trouble to meet the Tourist Board again to discuss with it the bogus S.E.T. concession, which means that the tourist industry in Scotland will be paying more after the so-called concession than before? Will he reconsider his views about the arbitrary line, which shows total ignorance of the problem facing the industry and that the tax should be abolished altogether?

Mr. Ross

I can assure the hon. Member that if the tourist industry or the Tourist Board have anything useful to say to me they will do so, as they have done in the past, but so far they have made no representations.