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VisitBritain: Finance

Volume 467: debated on Monday 12 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the marketing budget for VisitBritain is in 2007-08. (163078)

VisitBritain’s allocation of DCMS grant in aid for 2007-08 is £49.9 million. VisitBritain has told us that it will spend £35.5 million on overseas marketing and the remaining £14.4 million on domestic marketing.

In addition, a further grant of £750,000 was made to VisitBritain in August 2007 for additional marketing support for the domestic tourism industry, following the flooding in July.