HC Deb 11 March 1981 vol 1000 cc317-8W
Sir Anthony Meyer

asked the Secretary of State for Trade how many people from the United Kingdom paid visits to each of the other member States of the European Community, and how many visitors came to the United Kingdom from each of these States in every year since 1973.

Mr. Parkinson

This information is published inBusiness Monitor MQ6—"Overseas Travel and Tourism", in the issue for the third quarter 1980, which can be obtained from the House of Commons Library.

Final figures by country for 1980 are not yet available though provisional estimates for the European Community as a whole—excluding Greece—are:

Visitors to the United Kingdom from the rest of the European Community, 6,270,000.

Visitors from the United Kingdom to the rest of the European Community, 9,007,000.