§ Mr. AtkinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the top 20 tourist attractions in the area covered by the Southern tourist board in numbers visiting; and if he will indicate the numbers in each instance for the previous comparable year.
§ Mr. NichollsThe English tourist board's annual survey of visits to attractions gives the following figures for the Southern tourist board area in 1987 and 1988:
Number of visits 1988 1987 Needles Pleasure Park 600,000 600,000 Beaulieu 537,750 513,481 Winchester Cathedral 400,000 400,000 Mary Rose Exhibition 370,360 362,105 Paultons Country Park 366,100 372,930 Queen Elizabeth Country Park 340,530 292,126 HMS Victory 332,238 326,051 HMS Warrior 300,000 1— Marwell Zoo 280,405 248,052 Moors Valley Country Park 250,000 150,000 Osborne House 247,873 240,149 Birdworld and Underwater World 219,190 220,000 Natural World, Poole 181,700 170,522 Robin Hill Zoo and Adventure Park 180,000 180,000 Tank Museum, Bovington 175,469 169,746 Buckler's Hard Maritime Museum 164,795 170,180 Corfe Castle 161,754 149,279 Carisbrooke Castle 152,993 152,459 Poole Pottery 143,682 1— Studland, Dorset 142,510 144,294 1 Not known.