asked the Secretary of State for Trade why he did not include the South-East of England in the recently announced £1½ million grant for tourist projects from the National Tourist Board.

Because if we had made these limited extra funds available throughout the country they would have been spread too thinly to be effective. We extended the scheme to the inter- mediate areas, which have plenty of potential for tourism development and are economically in greater need of assistance than other parts of the country, including the South-East.