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	answer has question	77PxY2Gz
	answer has answering person	John Flasby Lawrence Whittingdale
	answer text	<p>Bank and public holidays provide an opportunity for people right across the UK to get outside and explore new parts of the country. Domestic, overnight trips make an important contribution to our tourism and hospitality industries, and the wider economy. For example, British residents made 100 million overnight trips in England between April and December 2021, contributing a total of £22.2 billion in spend.</p><p>The Inter-Ministerial Group on the Visitor Economy has been established to facilitate greater cooperation across government, in order to assess how best to support the visitor economy, and how to drive growth in the tourism sector.</p><p>The Government regularly receives requests for additional bank and public holidays, but we believe that the current pattern of bank holidays is well established and accepted.</p>
	answer given date	2023-06-22
	answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has written answer	EqyuSbHk
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has answer	EqyuSbHk
77PxY2Gz	question has answer	EqyuSbHk
John Flasby Lawrence Whittingdale	answering person has answer	EqyuSbHk