To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with boards of regional development agencies on tourism in England in the last 12 months. (271320)

Ministers and officials in my Department have not had meetings with boards of regional development agencies in the last 12 months. They have, however, met chairs together with other Government Departments and met individual board members from time to time to discuss key policy areas such as tourism development, culture and regeneration, and the creative industries.