Tourism: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the £350 million spent by Government annually on supporting tourism, with reference to his evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 25 October 2007. (171956)

Public sector tourism spending in 2006-07 is estimated as follows:

Organisation	Spend (£ million)
VisitBritain	49.9
VisitScotland	44.0
VisitWales	22.0
Northern Ireland Tourist Board	18.7
Northern Ireland Tourist Board to the joint Northern Ireland/Eire Tourism Ireland marketing body	12.6
London Development Agency	22.0
London Unlimited (additional marketing and promotional funding for London)	6.0
Non-London Regional Development Agencies	29.8
English local authorities	126.0
Scottish local authorities	4.4
Welsh local authorities	13.0
Total	348.4

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007