To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his revised estimate for the numbers and value of overseas visitors to the United Kingdom for 1989; and if he will make a statement.

A total of 14·9 million overseas visitors are estimated to have come to the United Kingdom in the first 10 months of 1989, spending about £5·8 billion.Both the number of visitors and their total expenditure were 9 per cent. more than in the same period last year. The estimate for the whole of 1989 will be published on 7 March.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures he has taken to assist the tourist industry since the ending of section 4 grants.

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Elmet (Mr. Batiste) on 28 November 1989, Official Report, column 212, regarding my Department's review of tourism policy.