HC Deb 24 February 1992 vol 204 cc407-8W
Mr. Allason

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how the statistics relating to(a) visitor bed nights and (b) day visitors are compiled for the purpose of preparing standard spending assessments in English resort towns.

Mr. Key

Details are given on page 14 of the The Revenue Support Grant Distribution (Amendment) (No. 2) Report (England) which is in the Library. No allowance is made in SSAs at present for day visitors; there is no consistent and reliable source of this information for all authorities.

Mr. Allason

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment on what dates the statistics relating to visitor bed nights were collected in 1990–91.

Mr. Key

The allowance for overnight visitors within the All Other Services element of standard spending assessments has been updated for 1992–93. It is now based on information from a number of sources: the British Home Tourism Surveys (1980 to 1984), the British Tourism Surveys (1987 and 1988) and the United Kingdom Tourism Survey (UKTS) (1989) for domestic visitors. It is the intention to incorporate in future years information from the UKTS for 1990 and 1991.