HC Deb 09 November 1992 vol 213 c544W
Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make an estimate of the number of British tourists who visited Tunisia during the past year.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

There are no detailed figures available from Government records of the numbers of British tourists visiting Tunisia in the past year. However, the Tunisian tourist office in London says that 120,326 British tourists visited Tunisia in 1991 and that it expects that around 200,000 British tourists will have visited Tunisia by the end of 1992.

Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what consideration he has given to the reports of Amnesty International in March and October concerning human rights abuses in Tunisia; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

We are aware of the Amnesty International reports and have raised the question of human rights with the Tunisian Government.