§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list those private companies whose tourism marketing expenditure is partly financed by grants from the Development Board for Rural Wales.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe Development Board for Rural Wales has not given any grants towards the tourism marketing expenditure of private companies.
The board does, however, work in partnership with the Wales tourist board, the British Tourist Authority, Mid Wales Tourism Ltd., the region's local authorities and the Welsh Rarebit-Welsh Gold Collection consortium, and promotes the region through its own brochure "Welsh Country Holidays" which is itself supported by the British Tourist Authority. All these activities benefit the tourism marketing of private companies by the increased promotion of mid-Wales.