§ 65. Captain Waterhouseasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give the sterling value of hard currency introduced by visitors to this country from 1st April, 1951, to the latest convenient date; and the comparable figures for 1949 and 1950.
§ Mr. GaitskellEstimates of dollar earnings from tourism in the first half of this year are not yet available, but will be published in the next Balance of Payments White Paper. The number of visitors from the United States and Canada in the second quarter of this year, excluding those in transit, is estimated provisionally at 58,200 compared with 60,400 in the second quarter of last year and 48,200 in the second quarter of 1949. There is, however, some evidence that expenditure per head is higher than last year.