§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total value of tourism in Cambridgeshire at current prices in each of the years from 1979 to 1989.
§ Mr. LeeThe available information for Cambridgeshire is shown in table 1 and relates to expenditure by overseas visitors to the United Kingdom who made a trip of at least one night to Cambridgeshire. Information about spending by domestic residents is available only for the whole of the East Anglia tourist board region, and is shown in table 2 together with the equivalent information for overseas visitors. Figures for tourist expenditure by United Kingdom residents on day trips to Cambridgeshire or East Anglia are not available.
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Table 1 Estimated spending in Cambridgeshire by overseas residents1 2 £ million 1979 31 1980 34 1981 34 1982 31 1983 58 1985 42 1986 69 1987 73 1988 81
Table 2 Estimated spending in East Anglia3 £ million By overseas residents1 By British residents2 Total 1979 111 295 406 1980 96 308 404 1981 95 339 434 1982 95 349 444 1983 126 391 517 1984 125 4346 471 1985 147 350 497 1986 157 445 602 1987 179 490 669 1988 189 555 744 1 Source: International Passenger Survey. 2 Source: British Tourist Authority. 3 East Anglia Regional Tourist Board comprising: Cambridgeshire together with Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 4 From 1984 an improved method of estimating expenditure was introduced for domestic spending. Figures for 1984 and later years are, therefore, not strictly comparable with those for earlier years.