Tourism

HC Deb 03 July 2001 vol 371 cc139-40W

Mr. Peter Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will publish the number of overseas visitors to Britain in each quarter since May 1997. [140]

Tessa Jowell

[holding answer 25 June 2001]: Quarterly figures for the number of visits to the UK from overseas are published by the Office for National Statistics as part of the international passenger survey. From May 1997, they are as follows:

Thousand
Year/Quarter	Visits
1997
2	6,447
3	8,168
4	5,961
1998
1	4,804
2	6,834
3	8,027
4	6,080
1999
1	5,046
2	6,799
3	7,913
4	5,636
2000
1	4,993
2	6,733
3	7,923
4	5,541
2001
1	14,920
1 Estimated

Mr. Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will publish the funding made available to promote tourism in each regional tourist board area by its regional development agency. [1780]

Dr. Howells

We have contacted the Department for Trade and Industry to request some of the information required, and I will write to the hon. Member as soon as it is available, placing copies of my letters in the Libraries of both Houses.